Face of Madness
Face of Madness Today the use of photography (and its extension, video) in psychiatry is a common practice. Diamond was behind the camera, this technique was an innovative application of art to…
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Face of Madness
Today the use of photography (and its extension, video) in psychiatry is a common practice. Diamond was behind the camera, this technique was an innovative application of art to science, reflecting and expanding the contemporary interest in physiognomic characteristics. But in the 1850s, when pioneering medical photographer and psychiatrist Dr. Hugh W.
Diamond's photographs and commentary.Diamond's photographs are eloquent portraits of the insane-the melancholy, the depressed, the deranged, the alcoholic-whom he cared for at the Surrey County Lunatic Asylum. In The Face of Madness, notable scholar Sander Gilman has curated a unique exhibition of 54 of Dr. In addition to their psychiatric significance, these photographs are notable works of art since Diamond was a pioneer in experimenting with and refining photographic techniques.Diamond's paper "On the