Human Generated Data

Title

A Portrait of Brigitta (2 of 5)

Date

July 12, 2000

People

Artist: Michael Silver, American 1947 - 2003

Classification

Photographs

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Kenyon C. Bolton III Fund, P2000.107.2

Human Generated Data

Title

A Portrait of Brigitta (2 of 5)

People

Artist: Michael Silver, American 1947 - 2003

Date

July 12, 2000

Classification

Photographs

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Kenyon C. Bolton III Fund, P2000.107.2

Machine Generated Data

Tags

Amazon
created on 2022-01-23

Book 99.8
Text 87.5
Novel 66.6
Word 64.5
Poster 63
Advertisement 63
Prayer 58.9
Worship 58.9

Clarifai
created on 2023-10-26

portrait 95.4
people 93.3
old 92.9
monochrome 92.8
woman 89.8
text 89
art 88.6
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retro 83.5
vertical 80.8
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one 78.8
man 77.4
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love 76.8
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Imagga
created on 2022-01-23

book 22.3
paper 22.2
money 20.4
currency 19.7
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dollar 18.5
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Google
created on 2022-01-23

Microsoft
created on 2022-01-23

text 99.6
human face 90.7
person 64

Color Analysis

Face analysis

Amazon

Microsoft

Google

AWS Rekognition

Age 20-28
Gender Female, 95.7%
Calm 83.1%
Sad 10%
Surprised 1.8%
Disgusted 1.3%
Happy 1.3%
Confused 1.2%
Angry 1%
Fear 0.4%

Microsoft Cognitive Services

Age 22
Gender Female

Google Vision

Surprise Very unlikely
Anger Very unlikely
Sorrow Very unlikely
Joy Very unlikely
Headwear Very unlikely
Blurred Very unlikely

Feature analysis

Amazon

Book
Book 99.8%

Categories

Captions

Microsoft
created by unknown on 2022-01-23

text 96.9%

Clarifai
created by general-english-image-caption-blip on 2025-05-17

a photograph of a woman with a necklace and a necklace -100%

Google Gemini

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

The image is a black and white email, seemingly printed from a computer. The email header shows the sender as Michael Silver, the recipient as Dkao at Harvard University, and the subject as “A possible solution - Update.”

The email is dated Sunday, June 25, 2000, and begins with a greeting to "Debi." The content discusses a complex topic related to ownership and integrity in art, with references to selling a piece, "Brigitta's portrait," and various artists. It seems like the writer is working through the legalities of their art and how ownership should work. The text is quite detailed, offering insight into the artist's thought process, their art, and plans for the future. The writer seems to be expressing a desire to conclude the issue and move forward. The author also mentions that they are giving up their borrowed camera and studio. At the bottom of the image is the author's name, "Michael," and a date-time stamp from the print, which reads 07/11/2000 3:23 AM. The print has a watermark which is a black and white image of a person, likely Brigitta.

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

Here is a description of the image:

The image shows a document or photograph with an overlay of text. The text is an email, dating back to June 25, 2000, with the subject "A possible solution - Update." The email is from Michael Silver, sent to "dkao@fas.harvard.edu".

The content of the email discusses ownership and the integrity of art. Silver mentions relinquishing claims of ownership of a piece and wanting it to be used for future students or scholars. He also talks about plans to take Brigitta's portrait and referencing her in his future work.

The background image is blurred and looks like a black and white photograph of a woman. The juxtaposition of the email text and the underlying image creates a layered, complex feel to the overall composition. The scan date in the bottom right suggests this is a scan of a physical document.

Text analysis

Amazon

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Sunday
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