I don’t know about this. There is a deeper message, under the text, but whether
that reflects racism or a cultural history is unclear. This sentence “The same
technology that misrecognizes individuals is also used in services for loan
decisions and job interview searches.” seems to me to be a fairly wild
extrapolation. Its true, in the sense that one might condemn the use of all
language because language has often been used to convey racist message. Its
only when one gets much more specific, as in identifying specific words and
phrases, that one starts to say something meaningful.
Another article (2014) on this theme is here:
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/04/16/303721251/light-and-dark-the-racial-biases-that-remain-in-photography?t=1556390819214
<https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/04/16/303721251/light-and-dark-the-racial-biases-that-remain-in-photography?t=1556390819214>
A very similar one from 2015 is here:
https://petapixel.com/2015/09/19/heres-a-look-at-how-color-film-was-originally-biased-toward-white-people/
<https://petapixel.com/2015/09/19/heres-a-look-at-how-color-film-was-originally-biased-toward-white-people/>
I’d like to see more hard evidence of a technical nature, and a little less of
just restating the same content. My one bit of research on this was to look up
my copy of the Kodak book of photography, published in the 1980’s, and when I
look up skin colour, I get to a two page spread emphasising the value of using
diffuse lighting to capture a broad range of skin tones, and two sample
photographs one of which has a white person, and the other has a black person.
On the other hand very many of the stock photographs in the book are of white
people.
Best regards
Laurence Cuffe
On 27 Apr 2019, at 06:45, `Richard Knoppow <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
A very interesting piece in the New York Times. I am not sure if you can
get this if you are not a subscriber.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/lens/sarah-lewis-racial-bias-photography.html?fallback=0&recId=1KR9IFPlZ6miFSSI3JWdGAQSz3I&locked=0&geoContinent=NA&geoRegion=CA&recAlloc=story&geoCountry=US&blockId=home-featured&imp_id=603095924&action=click&module=editorsPicks&pgtype=Article®ion=Footer
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