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" A composite portrait represents the picture that would rise before the mind's eye of a man who had the gift of pictorial imagination in an exalted degree. "
The British Journal of Photography - Page 258
1878
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The Journal of the Royal institution of Great Britain. Notices of ..., Volume 9

Royal institution of Great Britain - 1882 - 840 pages
...which I have since quoted, but which it will now be the object to examine and amend. The words were : " A composite portrait represents the picture that would rise before the mind's eye of an individual who had the gift of pictorial imagination in an exalted degree." The question to be considered...
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The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and ..., Volume 8

Anthropology - 1879 - 474 pages
...appropriate distinctness, owing to the mechanical conditions under which the components were hung. A composite portrait represents the picture that would...highest artists is far from precise, and is so apt to be biassed by special cases that may have struck their fancies, that no two artists agree in any of their...
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The Saturday Magazine, Volume 1

Frederic Beecher Perkins - 1879 - 714 pages
...individual a little out of focus, and who had somewhat moved during the process. I then pointed out that " a composite portrait represents the picture that would...before the mind's eye of a man who had the gift of a pictorial imagination in the highest degree." It is clear from the evidence of those composites,...
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Inquiries into human faculty and its development

Sir Francis Galton - 1883 - 434 pages
...with appropriate distinctness, owing to the mechanical conditions under which the components are hung. A composite portrait represents the picture that would...highest artists is far from precise, and is so apt to be biassed by special cases that may have struck their fancies, that no two artists agree in any of their...
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Inquiries Into Human Faculty and Its Development

Francis Galton - Ability - 1911 - 298 pages
...with appropriate distinctness, owing to the mechanical conditions under which the components are hung. A composite portrait represents the picture that would...highest artists is far from precise, and is so apt to b« biassed by special cases that may have struck their fancies, thai no two artists agree in any of...
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The Nineteenth Century: A Monthly Review, Volume 5

Great Britain - 1879 - 1156 pages
...individual a little out of focus, and who had somewhat moved during the process. I then pointed out that ' a composite portrait represents the picture that would...a man who had the gift of pictorial imagination in the highest degree.' It is clear, from the evidence of these composites, that generalised images are...
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The Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940

Miles Orvell - Social Science - 1989 - 412 pages
...hazard of the single image and would arrive at an averaged expression that was the sitter's true self. "A composite portrait represents the picture that...gift of pictorial imagination in an exalted degree," Galton wrote.40 (Note Gallon's association of his method wilh the artislic lemperament.) Put logelher...
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Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science

Ronald R. Thomas - Law - 1999 - 368 pages
...descriptions of the visual powers of some of these literary detectives: "A composite portrait represents lhe picture that would rise before the mind's eye of a man who had the gili of pictorial imagination in an exalted degree."10 Galton first described the procedure for making...
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Ape to Apollo: Aesthetics and the Idea of Race in the 18th Century

David Bindman - Art - 2002 - 276 pages
...was fully aware of the artistic implications of his new process and saw it as analogous to ideal art: 'A composite portrait represents the picture that...gift of pictorial imagination in an exalted degree', yet it had the additional merit of .., . . >o scientific precision. If new technology could give a...
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