Icono-photographique. Mécanisme de la Physionomie Humaine. Fig. 65
1854–56, printed 1862
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
12.0 x 9.2 cm (4 3/4 x 3 5/8 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1993
Accession Number
1993.248
Tags
Art Historical Context
In the mid-19th century, physician Guillaume-Benjaminmand Duchenne de Boune pioneered the scientific study of human emotions through facial expressions. Collaborating with photographer Adrien Tournachonbrother of the famed Nadar), Duchenne created this *Icono-photographique. Mécanisme de la Physomie Humaine. Fig 65* between 1854 and 1856, printed in 1862 as anen silver print from a negative. This small yet striking image (12.0 x 9.2 cm) captures a man's face contorted in fear, one of dozens documenting electrically stimulated muscle contractions to reveal the "mechanism" of physiognomy. Duche...
About the Artist
Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne|Adrien Tournachon (French|French) · 1806 |1825 –1875 |1903
French, 1806–1875|French, 1825–1903