Albert Londe
Albert Londe (* November 26, 1858 in La Ciotat, France, † September 11, 1917 in Rueil, at the chateau de Bréau near Paris, France) was a French photography pioneer in the field of medical research, X-ray and chronophotography.
Life
Londe was a medical photographer at the Salpêtrière in Paris and a pioneer of X-ray photography.
In his two decades at the Salpêtrière ( 1882-1903 ) he became possibly the most outstanding scientific photographers of his time.
The neurologist Jean -Martin Charcot took Londe into the Salpêtrière. 1882 Londe had developed a system that could be taken by patients with the physical, or muscular movements, among others, epileptic or " hysterical " seizures. He achieved this with a camera with 9 lenses that were combined with electromagnetically connected closures that were triggered using a metronome succession. A few years later he noted that camera with 12 lenses ago.
Londes camera was used for medical studies of muscle movements in people with activities such as forging or tightrope walking. The individual recordings were made at intervals of one tenth of a second up to a distance of several seconds.
Although the apparatus was designed for medical purposes, you could also record movements of animals and sea waves so loud Londe. General Sobert developed together with Londe a chrono photographic apparatus for ballistic studies. Londes images were used as illustrations in books, especially for publications of the anatomy illustrator Paul Richer, for which he earned recognition by medical professionals and artists.
Along with Étienne -Jules Marey (1830-1904) experimented Londe taking pictures of movement. His laboratory at the Salpêtrière resembled Marey's famous station Physiologique. 1893 Londe published his first book on medical photography (La photographie médicale: Application aux sciences médicales et physiologiques ). 1898 followed the treatise Traité pratique de radiography et de radio scope: technique et applications médicales.
Londe issued six " journals " and worked with his teacher and mentor, Dr. Jean -Martin Charcot, the then leading French neurologist, who also taught Sigmund Freud.
Since 1879 Londe was a member of the Société française de photographie, 1887 he co-founded the Société d' Excursions des Amateurs photographes.
Albert Londes 12 -lens camera from 1891 was shown in 1892 in the illustrated journal La Nature.