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Androgyny (6 Men + 6 Women)

1982, printed 1999

Nancy Burson

(American, b. 1948)
Culture
America
Medium
gelatin silver print
Measurements
Image: 22.9 x 20.8 cm (9 x 8 3/16 in.); Framed: 48.1 x 44.5 cm (18 15/16 x 17 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
The Jane B. Tripp Charitable Lead Annuity Trust 2020.72
Copyright
© Nancy Burson
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print
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The current global ratio of men to women in 2020 is estimated at 1.02 males for each female.

Description

Working with two MIT engineers, Nancy Burson developed the technique of computer morphing faces in the late 1980s. Instead of photographing individuals and then morphing their images, Burson chose to use examples from books and other pre-existing sources, exploring not individuality but instead the power and danger of stereotypes. Androgyny questions how we identify a face as male or female. The component faces in the work include a variety of ages but are all Caucasian.
A pixelated black-and-white vertically oriented computer composite depicts multiple men and women's faces with light skin tone that have been used to generate a headshot of a face, looking at us and with dark hair smoothed back, dark eyes looking out at the viewer, and thin lips pressed in a straight line with a very faint hint of facial hair on the upper lip. A hazy outline reverberates around the head.

Androgyny (6 Men + 6 Women)

1982, printed 1999

Nancy Burson

(American, b. 1948)
America

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