The Average Faces of Vogue Cover Models Around the World
This portrait is the average face of Vogue cover models over the past 25 years.
These Portraits Show How Hollywood Beauty Has Changed Since 1920
How has Hollywood's idea of female beauty changed over the past century? Here's a collection of averaged portraits that tries to answer that question.
Playing Around with Average Faces Using Martin Schoeller’s Celebrity Portraits
Yesterday, PetaPixel shared photographer Richard Prince's composite portrat created by blending together 57 faces of girlfriends seen on Seinfeld. I also enjoy playing with the idea of image averaging, and can't get enough of it. Late last year, I started experimenting with the idea of averaging faces by blending portraits.
I needed a set of faces that were all semi-similar enough to create good averages with. Well, if you haven't seen the work of photographer Martin Schoeller, you are missing out! He has a series of close-ups that are shot with very similar lighting styles and compositions of famous (and not-so-famous) people. It's simply mesmerizing to see. I grabbed the shots above to try face averaging out with.
The Average Faces of Women Around the World
What you see here are portraits created by taking photographs of women in 40 different countries and averaging them with Face Research software. These are the most neutral faces for various nationalities.