Khazar-khum Wrote:
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> Katherine Griffis-Greenberg Wrote:
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> > Katherine Reece Wrote:
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> > > I would think that the reconstruction
> using the skull would be the closest to what he
> looked like, especially the American reconstruction
> which was a "blind" one. They had no idea who the
> skull was or where the person came from. So there
> were no prejudices involved.<<<
> >
> > As I recall, the media of the time stated
> that all forensic reconstructions were blind. In my
> > opinion, the French (Daynes) reconstruction
> has a quality in which the artist unconsciously
> has imposed some of her own features on the
> model. This was fairly apparent when you see this
> photo of the artist, Daynes, at work
> >
> >
> >
> > and then of her finished product
> >
> >
> >
> > This is a problem, which has a specific name
> > (which escapes me, at the moment), that most
> > reconstruction artists guard against, but to
> me, on this reconstruction, it seems fairly
> apparent.<<
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> Honestly, I'm not seeing it. She has an underbite
> & short, squared-off nose; he has an overbite
> & receding chin.

I am not arguing that she gave the model's bone structure her own underlying features, but I am saying that in certain areas where she could make personal (subjective) choices on the external (fleshy) features of the model, she has used some of her own features.

See the 3/4 shot of the finished French model face in the first post (which shows all 3 reconstructions) and then compare with the post with the picture of Daynes' face.

Eyes, lips, and nose bridge appear to be very close to Daynes' own features, and these are 3 areas where she has to make subjective choices, since bone/cartilage does not exist for the proper tissue outlay or depth.

> I think you're looking for 'unconcious
> projection'.

Could it be that simple a term? Usually forensics comes up with a much fancier term than that, I thought... Yet, that is the concept I'm trying to convey.

Katherine Griffis-Greenberg

Doctoral Candidate
Oriental Institute
Doctoral Programme in Oriental Studies [Egyptology]
Oxford University
Oxford, United Kingdom