The Face of Tomorrow

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[quote]What is the face of London, New York, Paris? What does a Londoner, a New Yorker, a Parisian look like?

The Face of Tomorrow is a concept for a series of photographs that addresses the effects of globalization on identity.

The large metropolises of the world are magnets for migrants from all parts of the planet resulting in new mixtures of peoples. What might a typical inhabitant of this new metropolis look like in one or two hundred years if they were to become more integrated?

In Turkey and particularly in Istanbul, situated as it is at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, you can see how this process has been at work over the last thousand years as waves of humanity from Central Asia, Arabia, Greece and Rome have been absorbed. The resulting population is fairly uniform suggesting that if you could combine all the faces in a city right now you would be looking at the future face of that city.

The Face of Tomorrow attempts to find this face by taking photographs of the current inhabitants and compositing their faces to create a typical face. What we get is a new person – a mix of all the people in that city. A face that doesn’t exist right now, but a face, it seems, of someone quite real the Face of Tomorrow.[/quote]

Le foto che vedete sopra sono il frutto della ricerca di [url=http://www.faceoftomorrow.com/theartist.asp]Mike Mike[/url], un fotografo sudafricano che ha pensato di raccogliere 100 foto di persone (uomini e donne, tutti più o meno tra i 20 e 25 anni) in varie città del mondo per identificare il viso “standard”, la “fisionomia media” caratteristica di ogni Paese.

Il lavoro è interessante ed è divertente scoprire come ciascun viso in effetti aderisce all’immagine stereotipata che abbiamo di quasi tutte le popolazioni.

In realtà però non ha una grande valenza statistica: la “somma” effettuata dal computer delle foto originali, ad esempio, cancella i capelli biondi, anche in popolazioni a grande prevalenza di biondi è difficile che prevalga nella foto finale, oppure in Sud Africa la maggior parte della popolazione non è certamente bianca.

In ogni caso il [url=http://www.faceoftomorrow.com/home.asp]risultato [/url]è divertente.

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