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AI Portraits
The first image in this selection shocked me rather. I'd wanted an image of Noel Coward, but wasn't bargaining on getting something that could pass as a genuine photo by the great Cecil Beaton. AI imagery is still in its infancy but when it truly comes into its own it's going to play havoc with the historical record.
The second image was also meant to be a picture of Noel, but I don't think it looks much like him so I'm simply taking it as a picture of an elderly gent walking on the North Downs. Perhaps he was a WWII airman. Perhaps he's thinking "Up there is where we fought the Battle of Britain..."
The third is a "portrait" of the Rev Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll.) I think it's a plausible likeness of the man in middle-age, several years on from the best known photos. He's sitting by the River Isis, somewhere outside Oxford, remembering a certain day when he and some friends went boating. I wanted him in 19th century clerical dress but AI doesn't have that kind of thing stored in its memory....
The second image was also meant to be a picture of Noel, but I don't think it looks much like him so I'm simply taking it as a picture of an elderly gent walking on the North Downs. Perhaps he was a WWII airman. Perhaps he's thinking "Up there is where we fought the Battle of Britain..."
The third is a "portrait" of the Rev Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll.) I think it's a plausible likeness of the man in middle-age, several years on from the best known photos. He's sitting by the River Isis, somewhere outside Oxford, remembering a certain day when he and some friends went boating. I wanted him in 19th century clerical dress but AI doesn't have that kind of thing stored in its memory....
1. Darling Noel
2. On The North Downs
3. Still She Haunts Me Phantomwise...
2. On The North Downs
3. Still She Haunts Me Phantomwise...