The ''man with no face“ in the photo to the left
after facial surgery. In many instances, the surgery included constructing permanent masks that were incorporated onto the man's face.
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Soldier wounded in World War I by a Dum Dum round, which is a bullet designed to expand to create maximum damage
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Artist Anna Coleman Ladd developed an enamel technique that was washable and had a highly realistic finish. She painted the mask while the man himself was wearing it, so as to match as closely as possible his own coloring. All skin hues and details were painstakingly done by hand and Details such as eyebrows, eyelashes and mustaches were made from real hair. Each mask was a quite literally a masterpiece and changed lives. As one soldier wrote to Ladd:
‘Thanks to you, I will have a home. The woman I love no longer finds me repulsive, as she had a right to do.’
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Mustard gas victim
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French amputees and wounded in WWI, around 1919.
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