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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna Edit: Maybe someone should edit the Wikipedia intro that overly insists on very modern
by throwme_123 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna
Edit: Maybe someone should edit the Wikipedia intro that overly insists on very modern issues on gender. Lena herself happily participated to several research conferences on image processing:
https://www.icip2015.org/banquet.html https://www.icip2015.org/banquet.html
- fnimick 3y agoTimes change and people realize how inappropriate it is. She herself has called for an end to the use of the image as a relic of a male dominated field. https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/How-a-Nude-Playboy-Photo-Became-a-Fixture-14878319.php https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/How-a-Nude-Playboy-Photo...
- dfee 3y agoInappropriate selling yourself as a centerfold for Playboy or using the image?
- pavlov 3y agoThe latter, obviously.
- throwme_123 3y agoIs it truly the case? 2015 is not that far away, and from a personal account she was happy to be there and proud to have her image used in a research community. When you read your article, it seems the _journalist_ tried to extract a saying from her. So she says something quite vague instead, mentioning "time to retire" again... because it's what is going to happen because of "time changes.
- wkat4242 3y agoWhen you build your own OS from scratch it's your prerogative to use it as you see fit :P After all you're representing yourself, not society or even a community. It doesn't have to represent the whole breadth of society. If the maker is interested in woman it's not a bad thing. If it had been made by a women perhaps she'd have used a Chippendale image?