Albert Londe
Albert Londe (26 November 1858 – 11 September 1917) was a French photographer, medical researcher and
During his two decades at the Salpêtrière, Albert Londe developed into arguably the most outstanding scientific photographer of his time.
In 1878
Londe's camera was also used for medical studies of muscle movement in subjects performing actions as diverse as those of a tightrope-walking and blacksmithing. The sequence of twelve pictures could be created for durations from 1/10 of a second to several seconds.
Although the apparatus was used primarily for medical research, Londe noted that it was portable, and he used it for other subjects - for example, horses and other animals and ocean waves. General Sobert developed, in conjunction with Londe, a chronophotographic device used to study ballistics. Londe's pictures were used as illustrations in several books, most notably those by Paul Richer, that were widely read by the medical and artistic fraternity.
With Étienne-Jules Marey (1830–1904), Londe performed many photographic experiments of movement, and the layout of his laboratory at the Salpêtrière was similar to Marey's renowned Station Physiologique. In 1893 Londe published the first book on medical photography, titled La photographie médicale: Application aux sciences médicales et physiologiques. In 1898 he published Traité pratique de radiographie et de radioscope: technique et applications médicales.
Londe also published six journals. Albert Londe's 12-lens camera of 1891 was illustrated in the journal 'La Nature', 1893.
Written works
- Anatomie pathologique de la moelle epiniere (1891) (with Paul Oscar Blocq)
- In 1893 Londe published the first book on medical photography, titled La photographie médicale: Application aux sciences médicales et physiologiques.
- In 1898 he published Traité pratique de radiographie et de radioscope: technique et applications médicales.
See also
References
- ^ "Who's Who of Victorian Cinema". Archived from the original on 26 August 2007. Retrieved 23 July 2007.
- ^ Kemp, Martin (1997). Thomas, Ann (ed.). Beauty of Another Order, Photography in Science. Yale University Press. p. 134.