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Data-Driven Enhancement of Facial Attractiveness

phrontist — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:44:37 -0800

Data-Driven Enhancement of Facial Attractiveness

Faces of Battle

infini — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 11:01:57 -0800

As Armistice Day approaches an exhibition reveals a hidden side to the horror of World War I. It contains previously unseen images of British servicemen who suffered terrible facial injuries in the conflict. The exhibition also tells the story of one surgeon - Harold Gillies – who through his efforts to help them became known as the father of modern plastic surgery. WARNING: Some of the following images are of a very graphic nature.

The Faces of War

chrisbucks — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 19:08:50 -0800

The Faces of War, a fascinating document of the prosthetic masks used to cover serious facial injuries from the battlefield. Before plastic surgery was widely practised and used to reconstruct the horrific facial injuries of the First World War soldiers, men with the most serious facial injured were often hidden away from society.

Men such as those recorded in watercolour, and in pastels (warning: some may find these images disturbing); patients of Harold Gillies, pioneer of facial reconstruction at Queen's Hospital, Sidcup, the wars major centre for facial reconstruction and plastic surgery.