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

Kód výsledku v 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>

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60405 - Studies on Film, Radio and Television

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GX19-26865X" target="_blank" >GX19-26865X: Operativní obrazy a vizuální kultura: mediálně-archeologická zkoumání</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Philosophy of Photography

ISSN

2040-3682

e-ISSN

2040-3690

Svazek periodika

15

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1-2

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

14

Strana od-do

159-172

Kód UT WoS článku

001266898800011

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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