#anatomical studies
Part of a set of photographs taken in the final years of the 19th century by the French army, studies of male anatomy and motion to help soldiers and officers better understand the human body and the physical tasks it must perform in such an occupation.
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Male nude study.
1919
Yet another shot from the 1919 set, detailing this time the musculature of the back. A kind reader has tipped me off that the black borders denote these were produced as slides; perhaps they were used in the classroom of medical students, or others needing a superior understanding of the workings of the human body, providing a much more lifelike reference than anatomical illustrations alone.
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An impressive display of strength and balance, here, as this muscular man performs a handstand for the camera - not the first time I’ve shared shots of this uncommon but immediately eye-catching inverted pose.
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From the 1919 Belgian set of educational photographic slides, this a much simpler and more relaxed-looking pose than some of the others seen thus far!
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Further artists’ reference photographs from 1870s France, from the studio of Louis Jean-Baptiste Igout, in addition to those shared previously. The third here is my favourite of the set, as though one describes the features of some wondrous landscape while the other surveys the scene with eager admiration!
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As past images of vintage wrestlers and the work of Eadweard Muybridge have proved popular when posted here, I now present a sequence combining the well-received subject and much-lauded photographer. Taken in 1885, published in 1887.
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My goodness, at this precise moment my dear little collection’s esteemed audience stands at an astounding eight thousand followers! I never even imagined it might make eight hundred, I was honestly pleased with achieving but eighty, and now look at you all! I thank each and every one for your interest, your sharing and showing your admiration of the photographs, and all the kind messages of appreciation; and I fervently hope you’ve all found plenty to enjoy in what you’ve seen here over the last couple of years.
I have been unable to find you a photograph of eight men together, to mark today’s total the way I did some other significant figures, so allow me to cheat just a little and present eight exposures of the same man, in a Marey Wheel photograph by Thomas Eakins, circa 1884.
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George Reynolds, student of Thomas Eakins, photographed in motion with multiple exposures of a Marey Wheel camera, in 1884.
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EXCERPTS >|< Carpenter, planing a board by Eadweard Muybridge (1887)
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| Digital Copy: Public domainAnimated GIF created from plate 379a from "Eadweard Muybridge. Animal locomotion: an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements. 1872-1885 / published under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania. Plates. The plates printed by the Photo-Gravure Company. Philadelphia, 1887.“
EXCERPTS by OKKULT Motion Pictures: a collection of GIFs excerpted from out-of-copyright/historical/rare/controversial moving images.
A digital curation project for the diffusion of open knowledge.>|<
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Taken circa 1890 by pioneer of photographic and x-ray techniques Albert Londe, in the clinic of neurologist Dr. Charcot, this set of sequential pictures might appeal to sporting fans as well as those interested in anatomy (or, of course, socks with suspenders, as that is all the model wears).
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Eadweard Muybridge, c. 1887
Another moving image animated from fantastic sequential photographs by Muybridge; though they weren’t intended for this purpose when created, it is certainly an interesting way to view them.
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