#human skeleton
Day 3 WIP: emptiness and empathy
Luis Soler Pujol (Spanish, 1873-1923) Human Skeleton, from the album Luis Soler Pujol, Naturalista Preparador, ca. 1920, Gelatin silver print, Museum purchase.
These photographs are from one of two photographic ablums by Pujol held in the collection at George Eastman House. Both albums feature natural history specimens, taxidermy and anatomical models.
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Anatomy lessons at St Dunstan’s
By J.H Lobey, 1919
The present picture shows the instruction of blinded or sight-impaired men in human anatomy.
Lectures in anatomy, physiology and pathology were given to blinded men at St Dunstan’s who were trained to become masseurs (Pearson, loc. cit.). Two of them are wearing spectacles, including the second figure from the left, who also has a burned face. The third figure from the left directs his eyes straight ahead of him but holds his hand on the skeleton’s left femur, much lower down. The teacher appears to be the woman in uniform and hat who is showing the insertion of the head of the femur into the hip joint. The instruction takes place in one of the canvas buildings erected in wartime on the terrace between the back of the house and the lawn
