부산대학교 도서관

This paper investigates the composite portraits of Francis Galton in the nineteenth century. His composite portraits had not been sufficiently analyzed in the history of art and photography. Galton's method projects faint images of the several portraits in succession upon the same sensitized photographic plate. The result was that the outlines common to the largest number of portraits were most marked. But the purely individual characteristics leave little or no visible trace. In his composite portraits, Galton tried to reveal human types, for example, criminal type in criminology, patient's type in medical research and human types in anthropology. Although it was proved that no such type revealed itself, his composite portraits had a substantial impact on modern thoughts on typology and modern art.