The Nadars, a photographic legend

The Nadars

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Galvanization of the frontalis muscle, by the author

Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne (de Boulogne), 1862

Album of pathological photographs, complementary to the book called Localized Electrification", pub'd. by B. Baillière and Sons (Paris), frontispiece
22 pages and 17 plantes of positive photographs; in-4° (28 cm.)
BnF, rare book STORAGE, M-T-12
© Bibliothèque nationale de France
Duchenne wanted a photographer to preserve for posterity the extraordinary results he had achieved to great acclaim during public demonstrations of his method. He also wanted to help artists and students of the Beaux Arts to portray the diversity of facial expressions properly. Enlargements of the photographs he bequeathed to the School of Beaux Arts were used by teachers there from 1874.