Androgyny (6 Men + 6 Women), Nancy Burson, 1982
Photography is a perfect medium for recording the past. But until Nancy Burson’s Androgyny, it was useless for predicting the future. Burson worked with MIT scientists to develop technology that let her craft this composite image of the faces of six men and six women. Photographs could suddenly be used to project how someone would look, not just how they once did.