Faces in Time


This is an examination of an archive of Time magazine containing 3,389 issues ranging from 1923 to 2014, focusing on images of faces.

We extracted 327,322 faces from the archive, categorized all of them by gender, and obtained detailed characteristics of a subset of 8,789 of those faces.




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with A.I.
Create face
composites
View all faces
sorted by year
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in TIME
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TIME

About this work

Publications

“Dataset: Faces extracted from Time Magazine 1923-2014”,
Ana Jofre, Berardi, V., Bennett, C., Reale, M., Cole, J. Journal of Cultural Analytics. March 16, 2020, https://doi.org/10.22148/001c.12265

“What’s in a Face? Gender representation of faces in Time, 1940s-1990s”,
Ana Jofre, Cole, J., Berardi, V., Bennett, C., Reale, M. Journal of Cultural Analytics. March 16, 2020, https://doi.org/10.22148/001c.12266

“Crowdsourcing Image Extraction and Annotation: Software Development and Case Study”,
Ana Jofre, Berardi, V., Brennan, K. P. J., Cornejo, A., Bennett, C., & Harlan, J.. Digital Humanities Quarterly, 14(2). 2020, http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/14/2/000469/000469.html

“A Cultural Analytic Study of Facial Imagery in Time Magazine 1923–2014”,
Ana Jofre and Josh Cole. Digital Studies/Le champ numérique 14(1): 1–26. 2024, https://doi.org/10.16995/dscn.10047

People

Ana JofreSUNY Polytechnic InstituteDepartment of Communications and Humanities(Principal Investigator)
Vincent BerardiChapman UniversityFowler School of Engineering Michael RealeSUNY Polytechnic InstituteDepartment of Computer Science Josh ColeIndependent Scholar Kathleen BrennanSUNY Polytechnic InstitutePost doc 2017-2019 Aisha CornejoChapman University Student Assistant 2017-2019 Carl BennettSUNY Polytechnic InstituteGraduate Assistant 2017-2019 John HarlanSUNY Polytechnic InstituteStudent Assistant 2017-2018 Matthew DonoghueSUNY Polytechnic InstituteStudent Assistant Summer 2021 Timothy TuSUNY Polytechnic InstituteStudent Assistant Summer 2022 Robert ZuchSUNY Polytechnic InstituteGraduate Assistant 2021-2022 Lauren TaylorSUNY Polytechnic InstituteStudent Assistant 2023

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