Burson, Nancy. Second Beauty Composite: Jane Fonda, Jacqueline Bisset, Diane Keaton, Brooke Shields, Meryl Streep, 1982. gelatin silver print, 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.). The Jane B. Tripp Charitable Lead Annuity Trust, 2020.73. Copyrighted undefined.

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

1982

Nancy Burson

Nancy Burson (American, b. 1948)

Photography

Second Beauty Composite: Jane Fonda, Jacqueline Bisset, Diane Keaton, Brooke Shields, Meryl Streep, 1982. Nancy Burson (American, b. 1948). Gelatin silver print; 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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jane B. Tripp Charitable Lead Annuity Trust 2020.73 © Nancy Burson 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. Standards of beauty vary not only across cultures but also through time.

Original Source

Maker/Artist: Burson, Nancy
Classification: Photograph
Formatted Medium: gelatin silver print
Medium: gelatin, silver, print
Dimensions: 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.)
Departments: Photography
Accession Number: 2020.73