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Chinese Photographers and Their Clientele in the Netherlands Indies, 1890-1940
This article examines the position of Chinese photographers in the visual colonial landscape. The Chinese toekang potret were involved in both commissioned photographs and the production of commercial images, but the latter was less widespread. Contrary to the image that Chinese photographers' clients were from the lower strata of society, this article shows that they were commissioned by the European, Chinese and Javanese elite. The image materiality of the portraits reveals the visual traces of circulation and exchange. Hence, the Chinese photographers were indirectly involved in these elite networks as well
Chinese Photographers and Their Clientele in the Netherlands Indies, 1890-1940
This article examines the position of Chinese photographers in the visual colonial landscape. The Chinese toekang potret were involved in both commissioned photographs and the production of commercial images, but the latter was less widespread. Contrary to the image that Chinese photographers' clients were from the lower strata of society, this article shows that they were commissioned by the European, Chinese and Javanese elite. The image materiality of the portraits reveals the visual traces of circulation and exchange. Hence, the Chinese photographers were indirectly involved in these elite networks as well
Seeing Behind the Camera: Identifying the Authorship of a Photograph
We introduce the novel problem of identifying the photographer behind a
photograph. To explore the feasibility of current computer vision techniques to
address this problem, we created a new dataset of over 180,000 images taken by
41 well-known photographers. Using this dataset, we examined the effectiveness
of a variety of features (low and high-level, including CNN features) at
identifying the photographer. We also trained a new deep convolutional neural
network for this task. Our results show that high-level features greatly
outperform low-level features. We provide qualitative results using these
learned models that give insight into our method's ability to distinguish
between photographers, and allow us to draw interesting conclusions about what
specific photographers shoot. We also demonstrate two applications of our
method.Comment: Dataset downloadable at http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~chris/photographer To
Appear in CVPR 201
For Better, or For Worse: Photographing in a Digitally Cluttered Crowd
In recent years, smartphones have been utilized to photograph treasured moments. However, some are unaware they are distracting others in events such as weddings. The distracting smartphone user could potentially obstruct professional wedding photographers and hinder them from capturing priceless shots. The purpose of this thesis is to research the motive behind the addictive nature of smartphones and potentially decrease the number of smartphone pictures taken during the wedding ceremonies. The goal of this study is to bring awareness to the problem and to create a mobile application, which could then reduce the intrusiveness of smartphones during weddings. The researcher will observe wedding ceremonies in the United States, interview several wedding planners and other photographers to see if they have any suggestions for correcting “guest photographers,” and survey the general public to note their experience with cellphones at weddings
IP Basics: Copyright in Visual Arts
This discussion focuses on the needs of free-lance artists, craftspeople, photographers, sculptors and the like
The impact of the Hargreaves Review on photographers in the digital age.
This article revisits some of the questions raised in my undergraduate dissertation in 2005 looking at Online Digital Image Copyright and the adequacy of then current legislation to protect the Intellectual Property Rights of photographers. This article is intended to be an initial exploration of developments since 2005 and the possible impacts on photographers in a digital age
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