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        "tombstone": "First Beauty Composite: Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Sophia Lauren, Marilyn Monroe, 1982, printed 1999. Nancy Burson (American, b. 1948). Gelatin silver print; image: 20.9 x 22.7 cm (8 1/4 x 8 15/16 in.); framed: 46.4 x 46.3 cm (18 1/4 x 18 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jane B. Tripp Charitable Lead Annuity Trust, 2020.75. \u00a9 Nancy Burson",
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        "title": "First Beauty Composite: Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Sophia Lauren, Marilyn Monroe",
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        "department": "Photography",
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        "edition_of_the_work": "edition 11/15",
        "copyright": "\u00a9 Nancy Burson",
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            {
                "inscription": "Written in black ink on recto: \"First Beauty Composite \u00a9 1982 Nancy Burson (signed) [illegible word] R.C. & D.K. 11/15\"",
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                "description": "John J. McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH",
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                "date": "2000-2020",
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                "date": "March 2, 2020",
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        "did_you_know": "Standards of beauty vary not only across cultures but also through time.",
        "description": "By compositing the faces of female movie stars from two different eras, Nancy Burson helps us see how the type of face considered photogenic and therefore beautiful changed over the space of just a couple of decades. Curiously, creating digital composites of women took Nancy Burson longer than producing composites of men because women\u2019s hairstyles are much more varied.",
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                "citation": "Burson, Nancy, Richard Carling, and David Kramlich. Composites: Computer-Generated Portraits. New York: Beech Tree Books, 1986.",
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                "citation": "Burson, Nancy, Michael L. Sand, Lynn Gumpert, Terrie Sultan, and Christopher C. French. Seeing and Believing: The Art of Nancy Burson. Santa Fe, N.M.: Twin Palms, 2002.",
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        "updated_at": "2026-03-27 00:03:41.585000"
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