@LensMediaLab

Preserving the language of black and white photography @Yale. Home to the world’s largest reference collection of photographic paper.

 West Haven, CT
lml.yale.edu/
Joined January 2024
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Damon Crockett
@DamonCrockettJul 10
In April, I published a longform essay about the use of large language models in humanistic research. In that corner of academia, there are many skeptics, and in fact, many view LLMs as riskier tech than their prelinguistic predecessors (trad ML). I argue the opposite is true
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This talk is now up on YouTube. Check it out! youtu.be/fcqT0dNllB4?si=zQee…

UCLA/Getty Lecture ft. Damon Crockett: AI & Cultural Heritage...

UCLA/Getty Program's Distinguished Speaker SeriesfeaturingDamon ...

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Lens Media Lab@LensMediaLab8 May 2025
SoCal folks! The lab's lead scientist, Damon Crockett, will be giving at a lecture, hosted by the UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage, on Tuesday, May 20. Details and RSVP in the link below.
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The talk is Tuesday; still time to RSVP!
Lens Media Lab@LensMediaLab8 May 2025
SoCal folks! The lab's lead scientist, Damon Crockett, will be giving at a lecture, hosted by the UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage, on Tuesday, May 20. Details and RSVP in the link below.
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SoCal folks! The lab's lead scientist, Damon Crockett, will be giving at a lecture, hosted by the UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage, on Tuesday, May 20. Details and RSVP in the link below.
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Harvard folks! The lab's lead scientist, Damon Crockett, is giving a talk at 11a today at the Center for Astrophysics. He'll demonstrate how to use Paperbase to explore our reference collection of photographic paper. The talk is open to the Harvard community. Details in link ⬇️
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After 10 years in business, the LML is closing up shop. There is a lovely piece on the @IPCH_Yale website about the lab's achievements and legacy: ipch.yale.edu/posts/2025-04-…

A Legacy in Light: Yale’s Lens Media Lab to Close After a Decade of Discovery

Paul Messier, Director of the Lens Media Lab at Yale’s IPCH, announced that the lab will cease operations effective June 30, 2025.

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This (client side!) experiment is now live. Explore 260k public domain objects from @metmuseum across different visual feature spaces and 2D projections. Multimodal queries using @nomic_ai embedders and transformers.js from @xenovacom. Here I search for saturated coats:
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"Find visually similar images." Ok but which feature space?
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A new feature on Paperbase, our lab’s platform for exploring our massive reference collection of photographic papers. Check it out!
Data Visualization Society@DataVizSociety26 Mar 2025
Want to explore the technical history of photography through data visualization? Natalia Kiseleva delves into Paperbase, an interactive platform and its incredible journey to analyze the world's largest collection of gelatin silver photographic papers. nightingaledvs.com/paperbase…

Paperbase: A Window into Photographic Paper History - Nightingale

The Lens Media Lab at Yale University’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage has created Paperbase, an interactive platform for exploring the world’s largest..

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For those who missed this right before the holiday: if you're using vision-language models, check out our blog post!
Damon Crockett
@DamonCrockett27 Nov 2024
New blog post: "Image Captioning in Hostile Conditions". Our lab ranked 10 large VLMs (3 closed, 7 open) by human-judged pairwise contests. GPT-4o won by a large margin. Molmo and Qwen, both open models, shared the next tier with Gemini and Claude. Short 🧵+🔗:
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New blog post: "Image Captioning in Hostile Conditions". Our lab ranked 10 large VLMs (3 closed, 7 open) by human-judged pairwise contests. GPT-4o won by a large margin. Molmo and Qwen, both open models, shared the next tier with Gemini and Claude. Short 🧵+🔗:
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The Classic has published a story about Paperbase, our new public platform for exploring the world's largest collection of photo paper! 🔗⬇️
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Paperbase: Visualizing the Material History of Black and White Paper - The Classic

The Lens Media Lab at Yale University’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage has undertaken an extensive project to document and characterize its collection of over 7 500 dated and...

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The Lens Media Lab @IPCH_Yale has unveiled Paperbase, a visual platform for studying its unrivaled collection of photographic papers. Read more: bit.ly/lens-lab
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Our "Darkroom To Data" symposium on August 12 was a smashing success! Videos to be released soon. Here are some photos to tide you over (credit to Jon Atherton). The event was also covered by Yale News! Link below ⬇️
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Analyzing the photographic process from darkroom to data

At a recent symposium, Yale’s Lens Media Lab unveiled a visual platform for studying its unrivaled collection of photographic papers.

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Come to our August symposium, Darkroom to Data! We will discuss the past 6 years of lab research and launch Paperbase, a web platform for exploring the world’s largest collection of photographic paper. And because it’s funded by a @googlearts grant, it’s free! Link below ⬇️
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Register here: darkroomtodata.org/

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