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Figure 54: Abaissement volontaire de la mâchoire inférieure: mouvement inexpressif
c. 1856, printed 1862
(French, 1806–1875)
(French, 1825–1903)
Image: 16.4 x 12.2 cm (6 7/16 x 4 13/16 in.); Paper: 22.7 x 17.3 cm (8 15/16 x 6 13/16 in.); Mounted: 41.1 x 27.4 cm (16 3/16 x 10 13/16 in.)
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
Duchenne, a neurologist at a hospital for the poor in Paris, turned to photography to record the grammar of human expression.Description
Duchenne described this model, a former shoemaker, as “an old, toothless man, with a thin face, whose features, without being absolutely ugly, approached ordinary triviality.” When criticized for using such an unattractive model, Duchenne held him up as proof that “every human face could become spiritually beautiful through the accurate rendering of his or her emotions.”- ?-2017(Serge Kakou, Paris, France)2017–18(Robert Hershkowitz, Ltd., Sussex, United Kingdom)February 26, 2018-sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Liberatore, Virginia, and G.-B. Duchenne. Performing the Passions between Classical and Modern Epistemes: Text and Photography in Duchenne De Boulogne's "Mécanisme De La Physionomie Humaine". 2002.Duchenne, G.-B., and R. Andrew Cuthbertson. The Mechanism of Human Facial Expression. 2006.Prodger, Phillip. Darwin's Camera: Art and Photography in the Theory of Evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
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