James Vincent
How one Playboy photograph helped make the modern web.
If you don’t know about Lena Forsén — aka the ‘Patron Saint of JPEGs’ — then a little history lesson wouldn’t go amiss today. You can read all about Forsén in my review for the London Review of Books of Dylan Mulvin’s book “Proxies.” It’s all about the standards, templates, and, yes, Playboy photographs, that invisibly shape the technological landscape around us.
Keep It Clean: The Patron Saint of JPEGs · LRB 20 October 2022
[London Review of Books]
