Disappearance of the face: From early photography to facial recognition systems

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61384984%3A51310%2F24%3AN0000103" target="_blank" >RIV/61384984:51310/24:N0000103 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/pop_00098_1" target="_blank" >https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/pop_00098_1</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/pop_00098_1" target="_blank" >10.1386/pop_00098_1</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Disappearance of the face: From early photography to facial recognition systems
Original language description
In this article I analyse the hidden genealogical link between portrait photography, used for criminological and psychiatric purposes, and contemporary systems of biometric identification of the human face. The aim is to highlight the shift between the emphasis on the importance of the human ‘expert eye’ in recognizing the face when talking about nineteenth-century photography and the use of computer technology that produces and reads digital facial images. In both cases, however, these are modes and variants of reducing and flattening the human face; the face itself disappears under the onslaught of technologies of vision and mediation, becoming a mere data set. Special attention is devoted to the pose, the frontal view, whichis the technological a priori of the empirical possibility of recognition, articulated through the history of visualization of the face from early portrait photography to facial recognition systems. Consequently, what we call the ‘face’ is a simulacra of individual the face presented to the apparatus: the ‘real’ face is transposed upon multiple technological layers (camera – plates – photographic surface), losing its characteristic features to be re-written according to specific techniques of measurement.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60405 - Studies on Film, Radio and Television

Project
<a href="/en/project/GX19-26865X" target="_blank" >GX19-26865X: Operational Images and Visual Culture: Media Archaeological Investigations</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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