Artists and photographers,
such as Uta Barth, Alexey Titarenko and Nancy Burson, have employed
various photographic techniques to produce unusual outcomes. Their work
seeks to challenge ideas of conventional photographic practice.
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Nancy Burson
Nancy Burson produced some of the earliest computer-generated portraits,
and in collaboration with MIT engineers Richard Carling and David
Kramlich, became a pioneer in the now familiar territory of
computer-manipulated imagery. Burson continued to collaborate with
Kramlich, who later became her husband. Together the two developed a
significant computer program which gives the user the ability to age the
human face and subsequently has assisted the FBI in locating missing
persons. In Evolution II she combined the face of a man with that of a
monkey to produce an imaginary portrait of a species (as well as a
technology) in transition. This image was published in a series of
manipulated portraits, reproduced in the book Composites (1986).
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