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  • 2022-03-08 (xsd:date)
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  • Is This a Photograph of the Woman Who Modeled for the Statue of Liberty? (en)
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  • In March 2022, an image supposedly showing Isabelle Boye-Singer was widely circulated on social media along with the claim that she was the original model for the Statue of Liberty: This is not a photograph of Isabelle Boyer-Singer (misspelled Boye-Singer in the meme). In fact, this isn't a photograph at all. The above-displayed image was created by artist Bas Uterwijk in 2021 as part of a series of AI (artificial intelligence) portraits of historical figures. Uterwijk explained his process in an interview with Bored Panda: Here's another AI portrait Uterwijk created based on Vincent Van Gogh's self-portrait: The viral image we're concerned with is a computer-generated image of what the Statue of Liberty might look like if she were a real person, not a photograph of Isabelle Boyer-Singer. But was Boyer-Singer really the model of this famous statue, as the meme above stated? The Statue of Liberty was created by sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi in 1886. While there isn't a definitive answer to the question of whom Bartholdi used as a model, most historical sources say that the statue's face was modeled after Bartholdi's mother. It's possible that Boyer-Singer was the model for the statue's torso. While this claim has been around for decades, we've yet to encounter any evidence to definitively support it. Boyer-Singer was married to Isaac Merritt Singer, the creator of the Singer Sewing Machine, until Singer passed away in 1875. Then, according to rumor, Boyer-Singer met and married Bartholdi, who would later use her image as partial inspiration for his sculpture. While there may be some measure of truth to these claims, the above-displayed image certainly isn't a photograph of Boyer-Singer. (en)
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