Human Generated Data

Title

Untitled (view of ship and port, Vietnam)

Date

1967-68

People

Artist: Gordon W. Gahan, American 1945 - 1984

Classification

Photographs

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Barbara Robinson, 2007.184.2.179.1

Human Generated Data

Title

Untitled (view of ship and port, Vietnam)

People

Artist: Gordon W. Gahan, American 1945 - 1984

Date

1967-68

Classification

Photographs

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Barbara Robinson, 2007.184.2.179.1

Machine Generated Data

Tags

Amazon
created on 2021-12-14

Person 99.5
Human 99.5
Handrail 98.1
Banister 98.1
Railing 74.9
Architecture 63
Building 63
Airplane 62.5
Transportation 62.5
Vehicle 62.5
Aircraft 62.5
Clothing 57.9
Apparel 57.9

Clarifai
created on 2023-10-22

people 96.8
no person 96.3
one 94.6
vehicle 92.4
step 91
street 90.7
monochrome 89.2
adult 88.4
transportation system 88.1
man 87.9
architecture 87.3
portrait 84.4
indoors 84.3
building 83
two 82.5
wear 82.2
outdoors 79.4
watercraft 78.8
ship 78.3
art 78.2

Imagga
created on 2021-12-14

architecture 34.8
structure 31.8
barrier 31.6
step 25.3
building 24.5
obstruction 23.8
device 21.6
support 16.6
window 16.4
old 15.3
city 15
staircase 14.7
steps 13.7
stairs 13.4
metal 12.9
light 12.7
modern 12.6
tower 12.5
high 12.1
ancient 12.1
equipment 11.9
business 11.5
wall 10.7
railing 10.6
digital 10.5
construction 10.3
design 10.1
house 10.1
interior 9.7
close 9.7
technology 9.6
urban 9.6
industry 9.4
art 9.2
black 9
steel 8.8
arch 8.7
backboard 8.6
office 8.4
travel 8.4
iron 8.4
coil 8.3
sky 8.3
indoors 7.9
stair 7.9
windows 7.7
walk 7.6
stone 7.6
down 7.6
floor 7.4
town 7.4
historic 7.3
futuristic 7.2

Google
created on 2021-12-14

Microsoft
created on 2021-12-14

drawing 90.5
black and white 74.8
human face 73.8
white 66.3
person 60.1
man 52.3

Color Analysis

Face analysis

Amazon

Google

AWS Rekognition

Age 41-59
Gender Male, 84.6%
Calm 79.6%
Disgusted 6.2%
Sad 5.1%
Angry 3.7%
Fear 2.3%
Surprised 1.5%
Confused 1%
Happy 0.7%

Google Vision

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

Feature analysis

Amazon

Person
Airplane
Person 99.5%
Airplane 62.5%

Categories

Imagga

interior objects 99.6%

Captions

Microsoft
created by unknown on 2021-12-14

an old photo of a person 56.4%
old photo of a person 52.2%
a photo of a person 52.1%

Clarifai
created by general-english-image-caption-blip on 2025-05-06

a photograph of a man in a white shirt is looking at the camera -100%

Google Gemini

Created by gemini-2.0-flash on 2025-05-07

This black and white image shows a man wearing glasses, looking up and out of what appears to be a safety cage surrounding a ladder. The cage has circular and vertical supports and the ladder is visible on the left-hand side of the frame. The image is taken from below, looking up towards the man.

Created by gemini-2.0-flash-lite on 2025-05-07

Here's a description of the image:

This is a black and white photograph that appears to be a negative image. It has a unique perspective, looking upwards from a lower vantage point.

Key elements:

  • Perspective: The photo uses a low-angle perspective, looking up at a person and architectural elements.
  • Architectural elements: There are metal rails on the left side. There are also curved metal bars that form a circular structure.
  • Person: In the center, there is a person wearing sunglasses. They are framed within a rectangle, possibly a window or doorway.
  • Image Quality: The image has a grainy texture, typical of older photography or negative film. The negative film process has created the inverted colors.

The combination of the low-angle perspective, the architectural elements, and the figure in the frame makes for a compelling and somewhat unusual composition.