Ethically Sourced Lena Picture
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It should also be made explicit here, that for decades Lena herself had no issue with the photo or it's use in CS.
Other people began to complain, and Lena felt they had a point about exploitation of women, and agreed to back that cause.
Aside from the mass copyright infringement?
eg: Optical Engineering, Vol. 31, Issue 1, (January 1992). Editorial: Copyright Problems https://doi.org/10.1117/12.60707
and every other public reproduction of a drum scan of a pulled apart Playboy centrefold.
But seriously, I don't understand how this is better than the original. They have the same issues.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ways_of_Seeing
I'm sure Lena could say she had the photo taken for herself and her own enjoyment of her beauty, however it was paid for by by a men's magazine so self-appreciation probably not what she or the photographer had in mind.
"Berger asserts that only twenty or thirty nudes in the European oil painting tradition depict a woman as herself rather than as a subject of male idealisation or desire."
I fully agree. Now, could you explain what is the problem with that?
Could you point out what is actually wrong with one person being attracted by another person?
I was going to write “No one’s stopping you from using Lenna,” but admittedly if you tried to submit a paper with it, you’d face a stiff headwind. I don’t think that’s her fault though.