The figure in the painting is a composite portrait of several individuals, and the artist maintains it is based mostly on his nephew.
Yet it is, in the end, a composite portrait of France that this exhibition sets before us.
The manual emphasizes the potential for building a "huge information network" of composite portraits and personal data.
Between them, they make up a composite portrait of this controversial, multifaceted composer.
In 1913 he documented child laborers among cotton mill children with a series of Galton's composite portraits.
The result is more composite portrait than biography, a Cubist rendering, all angles and no center.
Also on view are composite portraits formed of several complete faces.
The result is a composite portrait of a people who in most cases appear to give themselves with equal abandon to the camera and to life.
Nancy Burson's composite portraits also come to mind.
Surprisingly, the composite portrait became more and more attractive with the addition of each new face.