[Male Musculature Study]

ca. 1890

Not on view

Author of a treatise on the importance of the camera in medical practice, Albert Londe declared, "the photographic plate is the scientist’s true retina." In collaboration with a laboratory director and professor of anatomy at the École des Beaux-Arts, Londe found that photographs intended for physiological analysis could also serve artistic applications. Their careful portraits of athletes—whether taken with stop-action cameras specially designed by Londe or in static poses such as the example here—were used in scientific texts on musculature and became templates for illustrations to aid artists in rendering ideally proportioned figures.

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Title: [Male Musculature Study]
Artist: Albert Londe (French, 1858–1917)
Artist: Paul Marie Louis Pierre Richer (French, 1849–1933)
Date: ca. 1890
Medium: Albumen silver print
Dimensions: Image: 14.9 x 9.6 cm (5 7/8 x 3 3/4 in.)
Mount: 14.9 x 9.9 cm (5 7/8 x 3 7/8 in.)
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro, 2012
Object Number: 2012.59
Curatorial Department: Photographs

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