Sixty years ago, a sharecropper’s son invented a technology to identify faces. Then the record of his role all but vanished. Who was Woody Bledsoe, and who was he working for?
Leak Shows ICE Planning to Use Facial Recognition Glasses to Identify Targets in Real Time
Newly leaked documents revealed the existence of the government's in-house facial recognition platform, coming soon to an ICE agent near you.
A Colorful Encounter: When William Eggleston met Henri Cartier-Bresson - Imaging Resource
Though he's a bit on the reclusive side, 73-year-old American photographer William Eggleston sat down for a short interview a few years ago with actress Drew Barrymore (yes, that Drew Barrymore) to discuss his work and his…
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George Tice, ‘Bard of New Jersey’ With a Camera, Dies at 86 (Published 2025)
He found beauty in the prosaic: bars, phone booths, hamburger joints, barber shops — first in a downtrodden Paterson, then throughout the state and beyond.
Can names shape facial appearance?
Our given name is a social tag associated with us early in life. This study investigates the possibility of a self-fulfilling prophecy effect wherein individuals’ facial appearance develops over time to resemble the social stereotypes associated with given names. Leveraging the face–name matching effect, which demonstrates an ability to match adults’ names to their faces, we hypothesized that individuals would resemble their social stereotype (name) in adulthood but not in childhood. To test this hypothesis, children and adults were asked to match faces and names of children and adults. Results revealed that both adults and children correctly matched adult faces to their corresponding names, significantly above the chance level. However, when it came to children’s faces and names, participants were unable to make accurate associations. Complementing our lab studies, we employed a machine-learning framework to process facial image data and found that facial representations of adults with the same name were more similar to each other than to those of adults with different names. This pattern of similarity was absent among the facial representations of children, thereby strengthening the case for the self-fulfilling prophecy hypothesis. Furthermore, the face–name matching effect was evident for adults but not for children’s faces that were artificially aged to resemble adults, supporting the conjectured role of social development in this effect. Together, these findings suggest that even our facial appearance can be influenced by a social factor such as our name, confirming the potent impact of social expectations.
Richard Sandler: Street Photography, Eye Contact & the End of the Old New York | Eyeshot 50mm Ep. 55
TikToker faces police probe over secret filming using Meta 'smart glasses'
The "content maker" published videos of encounters with young women and a female Sikh shop worker where he talked of a plot to "breed out the white race".
Meta's smart glasses companion app ships a complete, dormant face-recognition pipeline on a stock account.
Stella is the companion app for Meta's smart glasses. Inspecting version 273.0.0.21 of the Android build (com.facebook.stella), I found the entire computational and storage stack for on-device facial recognition: three face models, a local database schema, a cosine-similarity vector index dimensioned to match the models,
Poisoning Data to Protect It
After they released a tool designed to foil facial recognition systems in 2020, computer scientist Ben Zhao and his colleagues at the University of Chicago received a confusing email. Their solution, Fawkes, subtly alters the pixels in digital portraits, rendering images incomprehensible to automated facial recognition systems. So when an artist emailed Zhao to ask whether Fawkes might be used to protect her work, he did not see the connection.
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Robert Frank at 90: the photographer who revealed America won't look back
Filled with images of loneliness and shadow, Frank’s The Americans stands as one of photography’s greatest works
Here’s the Truth About Whether Meta’s NameTag Face Recognition Tech ‘Exists’
Since WIRED reported on Meta’s NameTag face recognition system, company executives have made confusing and conflicting remarks about its very existence.
Tyler Angert on Twitter / X
we're working on a new photo search engine called Angles. it's focused on doing one thing well: finding photos + videos by visual similarity.here is raw, unedited footage of me going through my 80,000 photo camera roll *in realtime* with text-to-image search, image-to-image… pic.twitter.com/fsCqIHv00j— Tyler Angert (@tylerangert) March 24, 2026
