Morpho: Face, Head, and Neck

INTRODUCTION

The fact that thousands of human populations have been intermingling for

millennia now makes the subject of this work inexhaustible and means that

the art of the portrait will always remain vibrant. Our species, with its billions of

individuals, offers an infinite number of variations on the same theme. We are

particularly sensitive to the tiniest differences that make each and every one

of us unique, especially because the creation of a portrait often triggers the

search for resemblances. The “morpho” approach and the format of this small

book, however, require us to take an extremely concise approach to the sub-

ject. All of ...