“Mecanisme de la Physionomie Humaine”

March 25th, 2009


Page from "Mecanisme de la Physionomie Humaine", originally uploaded by National Media Museum.

Kind of scary lookin but brilliant!!! Using photography way back in the 19th century to capture expressions. These have to be staged – although I am looking into that, and if anyone knows whether they are staged or not, please comment.

With the sizes of the cameras and the film sensitivity, the photographer couldn’t run around taking snapshots… Then these really aren’t expressions but interpretations of them by the subject as a result of their conversation with the photographer. Totally constructed, totally brilliant.

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