Edges of the World: Photographs by Thomas Joshua Cooper
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
organized by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art showcasing unconventional depictions of the Maine landscape.This year we feature the photography of Thomas Joshua Cooper, in which the rocky coast of Maine and its seas are seen within the larger context of the edges of the world.The body of work exhibited here was conceived and begim when the artist visited Maine in 1996.Thomas Joshua Cooper's series of approximately 100 photographs, of which this exhibition includes nine, depicts the water and shores of Great Britain, Greenland, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Maine, and Massachusetts.These glimpses of land and significant seas are similar to those that the English settlers would have seen as they journeyed to the New World on the Mayflower m 1620.Using an 1898 field camera, a large, cumbersome piece of equipment, Cooper usually makes pictures from just off the shore or right on its edges, often from the most extreme points of the coastline.Wliile the sites are described in detail by Cooper in the title of each work, the locations themselves at first look eerily similar-the same barren, jagged rocks, the same vast bodies of grey water.Rather than tiying to capture the discrete nature and character of the different coastlines-a task that artists have been assigning themselves for centuries when depicting Maine-Cooper is clearly more interested in the recurring rocks and desolate cliffs, as well as in the subtle distinctions of the ocean, captured as it passes through
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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 it