Human Generated Data

Title

Costa de Lavos

Date

1960

People

Artist: Gerard Castello Lopes, Portuguese 1925 - 2011

Classification

Photographs

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 2.2002.592

Human Generated Data

Title

Costa de Lavos

People

Artist: Gerard Castello Lopes, Portuguese 1925 - 2011

Date

1960

Classification

Photographs

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 2.2002.592

Machine Generated Data

Tags

Amazon
created on 2022-01-08

Nature 99.8
Building 99.7
Outdoors 99.5
Countryside 97.8
Person 97
Human 97
Person 96.9
Hut 96.1
Rural 96.1
Person 95.9
Housing 95.5
Shack 94.3
Person 90.2
House 82
Person 62.8
Shelter 60.6

Clarifai
created on 2023-10-25

winter 99.8
snow 99.7
house 99
barn 98.8
people 98.2
landscape 98.2
cold 97.7
abandoned 97.5
storm 97.1
farm 97.1
shed 96.2
fog 96.1
no person 95.5
farmhouse 95.2
ice 94.7
building 93.7
architecture 93.3
weather 92.6
frozen 92.1
light 90

Imagga
created on 2022-01-08

barn 100
farm building 93.6
snow 91.6
building 84.2
structure 57.2
weather 47.3
sky 35.8
landscape 30.5
winter 29
house 26
architecture 23.5
cold 22.4
clouds 20.3
sea 18.8
water 18
travel 16.9
outdoor 16.8
old 16.7
season 16.4
coast 16.2
scenic 15.8
beach 14.6
scenery 14.4
history 14.3
ocean 14.1
rural 14.1
tourism 14
trees 13.4
church 13
exterior 12.9
wood 12.5
tree 12.3
holiday 12.2
outdoors 12
window 11.9
field 11.7
summer 11.6
sand 11.4
city 10.8
mountain 10.7
wooden 10.6
scene 10.4
ice 10.2
hut 10.1
cottage 9.8
home 9.6
grass 9.5
buildings 9.5
day 9.4
outside 9.4
countryside 9.1
tower 9
ancient 8.7
cloud 8.6
roof 8.6
peaceful 8.2
vacation 8.2
religion 8.1
farm 8
light 8
river 8
agriculture 7.9
antique 7.8
snowy 7.8
freeze 7.8
construction 7.7
frost 7.7
seascape 7.7
england 7.6
bay 7.6
coastline 7.5
vintage 7.5
shore 7.4
new 7.3
tourist 7.3
country 7

Google
created on 2022-01-08

Building 92.6
Sky 85.8
Black-and-white 82.5
Snow 81.2
Art 80.2
House 79.4
Rectangle 78.1
Landscape 77.9
Tints and shades 77.3
Slope 76
Monochrome photography 74.4
Monochrome 73.9
Freezing 73.5
Winter 71.2
Visual arts 67
Tree 64.5
History 64
Event 63.4
Stock photography 61.9
Room 61.8

Microsoft
created on 2022-01-08

snow 98.4
outdoor 92.4
black and white 82.3
sky 67.7
landscape 61
skiing 60.4

Color Analysis

Feature analysis

Amazon

Person
Person 97%
Person 96.9%
Person 95.9%
Person 90.2%
Person 62.8%

Categories

Imagga

beaches seaside 99.5%

Captions

Microsoft
created by unknown on 2022-01-08

a house on a beach 80.6%
a house in the background 80.5%
a close up of a house 80.4%

Google Gemini

Created by gemini-2.0-flash-lite on 2025-05-17

Here's a description of the image:

Overall Impression: The image is a black and white photograph capturing a desolate, possibly coastal or desert-like, scene. It evokes a sense of isolation and sparseness.

Composition:

  • The image is dominated by the sky, which appears to be clear and cloudless.
  • Several buildings are positioned along the horizon. These buildings include a medium-sized house on the right side, and a medium-sized, perhaps unfinished, building on the left side, as well as a few other structures.
  • The foreground is a vast, sandy expanse, with a few low-lying mounds of sand or vegetation.
  • Several people are visible, seemingly scattered across the sandy ground, emphasizing the scale and emptiness of the area.

Details:

  • The buildings have a simple, somewhat rustic appearance.
  • The textures of the sand, walls, and buildings are well-defined thanks to the black-and-white rendering.
  • There is a sense of distance and space, with the foreground taking up a significant portion of the image.

Mood and Tone:

  • The image conveys a sense of stillness, quietness, and solitude.
  • The stark contrast between light and shadow adds to the dramatic effect.
  • The overall mood is possibly melancholic or contemplative.

Possible Interpretations:

  • The image might depict a coastal village or a sparsely populated area.
  • The lack of color and abundance of open space could be interpreted as a visual metaphor for isolation, longing, or the vastness of nature.

Created by gemini-2.0-flash on 2025-05-17

The black and white photo depicts a stark, somewhat desolate landscape featuring several buildings and a few figures on what appears to be a sandy or beach-like terrain. The composition is divided into the foreground, which is largely sandy, and the background, where the buildings are situated.

In the foreground, the sandy area shows some variation in texture, with slight undulations and subtle patterns indicating the passage of wind or water. The middle ground is elevated slightly.

The buildings in the background vary in style and condition. The building on the left is a pale two-story structure with a tiled roof and dark shutters or doors. A brick wall extends from this building to another structure, possibly under construction, that is a dark color. To the right is a dark wood building, also with a tiled roof, with a peaked roofline.

Several small figures are scattered across the scene. In front of the left building are two people. In front of the right building is a person with outstretched arms and legs. To the left of the building is a child-sized figure.

The overall mood of the photograph is austere, due to the monochromatic palette and the spartan appearance of the landscape and buildings. The image conveys a sense of isolation.