Caption: Left: Summary Chart of Physical Traits for the Study or the ‘Portrait Parlé. Photo: Alphonse Bertillon. Courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (1909). Right: A selection of photos is mapped with grid points by facial recognition software. Photo: Steger photo/Getty Images.
In this highlight clip, Reading The Pictures Salon moderator Nate Stormer and panelists Corey Keller, Kurt Mutchler, Marvin Heiferman, Ben de la Cruz, explore two different images illustrating facial recognition. The original purpose of these photographs was to categorize facial features.
The Reading the Pictures and Seeing Science/ UMBC salon, “How Science is Pictured in the Media and Public Culture,” was held Thursday, December 1st, 2016 on Google HangOut with a live audience chat. Panelists included: Rebecca Adelman UMBC Professor of Media & Communication Studies; Ben de la Cruz, Multimedia Editor, Science Desk, NPR; Marvin Heiferman Faculty member, Curator, Project Director “Seeing Science”; Corey Keller – Curator, SFMOMA; Kurt Mutchler – Senior Editor, Science, Photography Department, National Geographic; and Max Mutchler, Space Telescope Science Institute, Hubble Heritage Project manager, visual scholar Nate Stormer explored ten key and provocative photos in a live Google Hangout, culled from thousands of media images across sixteen categories of science.
The Reading the Pictures Salon is an on-line, real-time discussion between photojournalists, visual academics and other visual or subject experts. Each salon examines a set of images relevant to the major stories of the day.
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