An online guide to Styker’s Choice as
a RESEARCH website together with further
developments.
In an attempt to identify some of the
locations on the Styker’s Choice website,
the author sought a little help.
You might like to try this for
yourself and see if you agree?
The image below is negative #0101 from Stryker’s Choice
‘Commissioner Alan operating a Tractor, Berwyn, Maryland’
By using Google images, what else
might we find out?
Images.google.co.uk
Click on the little camera ‘search by
image’ and then drag and drop.
You probably will be amazed that you
can now identify the Commissioner’s tractor as a Standard Fordson.
Now try TinEye Reverse Image Search tineye.com
If you find that fascinating, why not try a later Google
innovation, the Google lens Apphttps: //lens.google.com
This is just
the tip of an ‘information iceberg’, especially with the advent of Artificial
Intelligence and all the benefits as well as downsides that AI can bring.
Robert
Herringshaw has used this website, Styker’s Choice, extensively as an
innovative online research tool and has taken the exploration of the
hole-punched ‘killed negatives’ to a level never seen before.
The entire
collection of the 4225 negatives has been analysed in the manner of Lutz &
Collins (1993) and previously sampled by John Vachon in 1938. This was described by Carl Fleischhauer for
The Library of Congress in 2020 and is available at:
Selecting photographs for the FSA/OWI print
file : a photo-assignment case study ... | Library of Congress
Visual
categorisation was one approach the author made in an attempt to try to
discover pragmatically why Stryker
needed to punch holes in 35 mm negatives as part of a selection process.
Whilst this information is not available to the wider audience, Robert Herringshaw,
as mycameraimaging, would be pleased to
share his results with scholars and other interested parties on an individual
basis, by using the CONTACT page of this
website, as a conduit.
