Julien Posture draws on 17 months of embedded fieldwork among illustrators, art directors, copyright lawyers, and machine learning scientists in New York City to examine a central question: how do people (and machines) interpret images together and in opposition to one another? Framed through the lens of contemporary anthropology, this talk follows the lives and perspectives of “image people” to explore what it means to build both a career and a life around image-making in an era shaped by economic precarity, technological automation, and political uncertainty.