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It’s a photo of Lena.

“Lenna or Lena is the name given to a standard test image widely used in the field of image processing since 1973. It is a picture of the Swedish model Lena Forsén, shot by photographer Dwight Hooker, cropped from the centerfold of the November 1972 issue of Playboy magazine.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna

See also

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8707093

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19181257

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15670650



Very interesting, thank you. This is exactly what I was looking for.


Also look up the history of china dolls in photography/film/video.




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