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Thursday, May 11, 2023
Stare
I wish I had a date on this one, but it might be 1840s. The model is staring
into space, probably because absolute stillness was required.
This photograph is in my copy of the book "The Hidden Image" by Peter Weiermair and his attribution for the photo is "Anonyme, Homme nu assis, ca. 1850" and in the Acknowledgments section that it is from "Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris".
home nu assis means Man, nude...seated. one of the ways they remained still was because they were often dead, and they had cleaned the body, by the time the photog arrived. (morte pics were popular)
Post mortem photography really took off in the second half of the 19th C., but I don't think this is one. They would never have done one of those nude. I think the blank stare is simply what the model did to help keep still for the long exposure.
This photograph is in my copy of the book "The Hidden Image" by Peter Weiermair and his attribution for the photo is "Anonyme, Homme nu assis, ca. 1850" and in the Acknowledgments section that it is from "Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris".
ReplyDeleteThanks! Even though there's no photagrapher named, the date estimate is close to mine.
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ReplyDeleteMan, nude...seated.
one of the ways they remained still was because they were often dead, and they had cleaned the body, by the time the photog arrived.
(morte pics were popular)
Post mortem photography really took off in the second half of the 19th C., but I don't think this is one. They would never have done one of those nude. I think the blank stare is simply what the model did to help keep still for the long exposure.
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