Meet the world's Mrs. Averages（5）
FINDING THE AVERAGE - A TECHNIQUE USED FOR A CENTURY
Anthropologist Sir Francis Galton - who was also the cousin of Charles Darwin - pioneered the method of 'composite portraiture' in the 1880s.
He superimposed multiple portraits of individuals' faces together to create an average.
All of the portraits were registered on the subject's eyes and the rest of the face was created around them.
The faces have been the topic of fierce debate over the last hundred years, with much psychological research focusing on the attractiveness of the face and why different people find one more attractive than the other.
Other psychologists, including Sigmund Freud in his work On Dreams, picked up Galton's suggestion that these composites might represent a useful metaphor for an ideal type or a concept of a 'natural kind'.
To this day, the method is still used by scientists studying attractiveness and beauty - although computer programmes have replaced much of the original methods used at the turn of the 19th century.
Fig. 5
The project was inspired by South African photographer Mike Mike's project.
（Read more：http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2435688/The-average-woman-revealed-Study-blends-thousands-faces-worlds-women-look-like.html#ixzz2gIeFBNbe）
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