MDIA 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Face Detection, Calotype, Athanasius Kircher
22 Dec 2016
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Rogue gallery - new york city, 1909: police kept records of all criminals with photographs, used for identification upon multiple arrests. Mug shots: different from a portrait, as the mugshot identifies physicalities of the subject, rather than an appealing photograph, interest in visual information about the criminal, provides a visual history of what has been illegal. One woman was arrested and photographed, labeled lesbian". Martin luther king jr. mugshot for civil rights movement. David bowie: security is now computing process which matches a face in a database, reduction of difference, possibilities, variables for the purpose of predictability. Passports: late 19th century passports had no photography. Granted ability for forgery, illegal sale, swapping or giving them to others: 1930s passport contained photograph. Had both photographs of husband and a wife. Showed the government didn"t want women as individuals. Women could not travel abroad without their husbands.
