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02D // Seville, Spain by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Last Attempt

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Seville, Spain by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Last Attempt "The Machine Recalls a Canon" 2500 x 1667 px, .png 2022 // For this little exercise in post-photography, I attempt to recreate iconic photographs using new artificial intelligence algorithms that generate images from text prompts, made possible thanks to advances in natural language processing models like GPT-3. This photograph was mediated through MidJourney's AI Bot on Discord and is entirely machine generated. This series is dedicated to Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote. In recreating the canon from digital scratch, we can consider the fragility of our collective memories, we can also reconsider the canon in and of itself. What deserves to be called forth back into existence and why? Probably cliché to admit it, but Henri Cartier-Bresson is one of my favorite street photographers and I love his perfect snapshot compositions, especially the images taken around Spain in the 1930s. In retrospect, I should've gone with the Alicante photo of the women doing each other's hair, because I had a hell of a time trying to get an AI to understand how to frame an image inside a blown out wall. // // Artwork by Sabato Visconti // www.sabatobox.com // @sabatobox on Twitter //

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