Human Generated Data

Title

Untitled (stone stairway leading into house, Nazaré, Portugal)

Date

1967

People

Artist: Gordon W. Gahan, American 1945 - 1984

Classification

Photographs

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Barbara Robinson, 2007.184.2.558.3

Human Generated Data

Title

Untitled (stone stairway leading into house, Nazaré, Portugal)

People

Artist: Gordon W. Gahan, American 1945 - 1984

Date

1967

Classification

Photographs

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Barbara Robinson, 2007.184.2.558.3

Machine Generated Data

Tags

Amazon
created on 2019-08-09

Banister 98.7
Handrail 98.7
Outdoors 93.4
Nature 91.8
Snow 82.9
Transportation 82.1
Train 82.1
Vehicle 82.1
Ice 66.4
Home Decor 65.5
Person 65.3
Human 65.3
Prison 56.6
Winter 55.7
Staircase 55.3

Clarifai
created on 2019-08-09

door 97.6
step 96.6
street 95.7
window 95.6
indoors 95.4
monochrome 95.2
light 93.6
no person 93.3
subway system 93.3
architecture 92.4
wall 91.4
people 89.1
entrance 89
room 88.6
black and white 88.2
building 88
city 87.8
house 87.3
hallway 85.8
exit 85.1

Imagga
created on 2019-08-09

locker 73.4
fastener 59.5
device 45.1
restraint 44.7
building 38.1
architecture 37.6
old 35.5
telephone 29.8
pay-phone 26
history 22.4
wall 22.2
house 21.7
city 21.6
street 21.2
stone 21.1
ancient 20.8
travel 20.4
electronic equipment 19.8
door 19.7
tourism 18.1
town 16.7
brick 16.1
structure 15.5
construction 15.4
equipment 14.9
historic 13.7
window 13.7
entrance 13.5
home 12.8
wood 12.5
urban 12.2
support 11.9
traditional 11.6
step 11.6
sky 11.5
culture 11.1
call 10.9
landmark 10.8
machine 10.3
exterior 10.1
tourist 10
dirty 9.9
ruins 9.7
interior 9.7
wooden 9.7
stairs 9.5
buildings 9.4
historical 9.4
road 9
design 9
gate 8.9
metal 8.8
cash machine 8.8
steps 8.8
light 8.7
antique 8.7
architectural 8.6
grunge 8.5
outdoors 8.2
barrier 8
sea 7.8
ruin 7.8
empty 7.7
facade 7.7
village 7.7
windows 7.7
destination 7.5
vintage 7.4
famous 7.4
column 7.3
industrial 7.3
aged 7.2
day 7.1

Google
created on 2019-08-09

Microsoft
created on 2019-08-09

black and white 96.1
text 72.1
stairs 69.3
clothing 56.1
person 52.5
toilet 43.4

Color Analysis

Feature analysis

Amazon

Train
Person
Train 82.1%
Person 65.3%

Categories

Captions

Clarifai
created by general-english-image-caption-blip on 2025-05-04

a photograph of a woman in a white dress and hat is standing in front of a train car -100%

Google Gemini

Created by gemini-2.0-flash-lite on 2025-05-04

This is a black and white, inverted image, likely taken from a film negative. The scene appears to be an exterior shot of a building entrance. Here's a breakdown:

  • Composition: The image is framed by the film strip border with its sprocket holes visible. The main subject is the building entrance, positioned slightly off-center.
  • Building & Entrance: A dark, solid-looking building on the left side of the image. The entrance has a set of steps leading up to a doorway. Inside the doorway, a figure in a white garment seems to be standing, facing the camera. Details inside the doorway are difficult to discern due to the inversion.
  • Street Scene: To the right of the building is a street scene with buildings along the road, suggesting a town or city setting. A cobbled surface is also visible.
  • Lighting and Tone: The image has stark contrasts due to being an inverted negative. What would normally be dark is light and vice versa. This adds a mysterious or ghostly atmosphere to the picture.
  • Overall Impression: The image has a historical, almost dreamlike quality, given the negative processing and the possible age of the photograph.

Created by gemini-2.0-flash on 2025-05-04

The image is a black and white photograph of a building entrance with a flight of steps leading up to the door. A woman in a white dress or gown is standing just inside the doorway, facing away from the camera. The interior of the building appears to have shelves and framed pictures.

The staircase is flanked by walls, and the side of the building extends towards the right, where a street with other buildings can be seen. The street seems to be slightly angled, and the buildings along it recede into the distance.

The pavement in front of the building is tiled, and there is a border of stones or gravel between the pavement and the building's side. The overall impression is of an old or historical setting, possibly in a European town or city. The image appears to be a photographic negative, as the tones are inverted.