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Second Beauty Composite: Jane Fonda, Jacqueline Bisset, Diane Keaton, Brooke Shields, Meryl Streep

1982

Nancy Burson

(American, b. 1948)
Culture
America
Medium
gelatin silver print
Measurements
Image: 20.9 x 22.7 cm (8 1/4 x 8 15/16 in.); Framed: 46.4 x 46.5 cm (18 1/4 x 18 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
The Jane B. Tripp Charitable Lead Annuity Trust 2020.73
Copyright
© Nancy Burson
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
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Standards of beauty vary not only across cultures but also through time.

Description

By compositing the faces of female movie stars from two different eras, Nancy Burson helps us see how the type of face considered photogenic and therefore beautiful changed over the space of just a couple of decades. Curiously, creating digital composites of women took Nancy Burson longer than producing composites of men because women’s hairstyles are much more varied.
Pixelated black-and-white computer composite of multiple White, women movie stars' faces into a headshot, looking at us. The face is narrow with a pointed chin and has wide set large eyes with heavy black eyeliner and mascara, low sculpted eyebrows, and lips pressed together, the bottom lip plump. Long, dark hair fills the majority of the space surrounding the face, strands of hair falling over the left brow.

Second Beauty Composite: Jane Fonda, Jacqueline Bisset, Diane Keaton, Brooke Shields, Meryl Streep

1982

Nancy Burson

(American, b. 1948)
America

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