Les Enfants De La Cité:the children of Cité Lesage-Bullourde and Boulogne-Billancourt 1949-1954
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The output was an exhibition of archival photographs examining the work of photographer Marilyn Stafford, curated by Julia Winckler at the invitation of the Alliance Francaise Toronto, for the Pierre Leon Gallery (2017). Winckler curated a new version of the exhibition, with additional research, for the Maison de la Recherche de l’Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris (2020), delivered as a virtual exhibition. Winckler’s distinctive approach brings ideas and methods from social anthropology to bear on the investigation of photographers’ practices and the wider significance for communities recorded in photographs. The research examined the relationship between Stafford’s practice and the social significance of the resulting work, and developed a curatorial research approach that re-activated the archival photographs to give emotional understanding of the individuals and communities represented. Winckler digitised a number of contact sheets and medium format negatives that had survived since Stafford first took the photographs in the Cité Lesage Boullourde and Boulogne-Billancourt, adjacent Parisian working-class neighbourhoods demolished in the late 1950s, and turned these into large prints for the exhibition. The research highlighted methodological approaches of oral history and geographical placement which enabled this archive imagery to become resonant for modern audiences, while foregrounding some of the complex histories, viewpoints and temporalities of Stafford’s photographs. The exhibition was first shown in Toronto under the title Mémoires photographiques des coins perdus: Les Enfants de la Cité Lesage-Bullourde et Boulogne Billancourt, Paris, 1949-1954 (2017) and subsequently in Paris (virtually, 2020). The exhibitions were complemented by catalogues, including contextualising essays and additional research material, and a short documentary film.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.014 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.013 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".