During Gymnasium today, we learned of Francis Galton's composite portraits. Galton was the charming man who founded Eugenics. Seeing his racist images reminded me of an ad from Adbusters which actually manages to be progressive in its critique of advertisements (which, apparently, use composite images to make 'beautiful' faces). This ad is a proposed placement in a teen magazine as a criticism of ridiculous teen magazine advertisements; that is, people write in to Adbusters and help decide if the proposed ad would be an effective criticism. Here's one that references composite faces: Beauty is Averageness [1]

This girl's face is a compilation of the faces of 64 girls.