Tag: scientific photography

Psychiatrie-Patientin, 1890

Eine junge Psychiatrie-Patientin in einem ekstatischen Zustand, aufgenommen am 2. Januar 1890 in einer französischen Klinik. | Young woman in an ecstatic condition, France, ca. 1890. Image © adoc-photos Corbis via Spiegel
Eine junge Psychiatrie-Patientin in einem ekstatischen Zustand, aufgenommen am 2. Januar 1890 in einer französischen Klinik. | Young woman in an ecstatic condition, France, ca. 1890. Image © adoc-photos Corbis via Spiegel
Eine junge Psychiatrie-Patientin in einem ekstatischen Zustand, aufgenommen am 2. Januar 1890 in einer französischen Klinik. | Young woman in an ecstatic condition, France, ca. 1890. Image © adoc-photos Corbis via Spiegel Geschichte
Young woman in an ecstatic condition (France); ca. 1890. Image © adoc-photos Corbis via Getty Images
Young woman in an ecstatic condition (France); ca. 1890. Image © adoc-photos Corbis via Getty Images
A young psychiatric patient in an ecstatic state, photographed on January 2, 1890 in a French clinic. | Spiegel Geschichte
A young psychiatric patient in an ecstatic state, photographed on January 2, 1890 in a French clinic. | Spiegel Geschichte

Hypnotized: Some psychologists diagnosed at the end of the 19th century that specially women were at particular risk of infection from the “Wagner virus” because of their weaker nerves. His music can trigger hysteria or “inappropriate sexual arousal”. Quoted from article

Ice cavern carved by the sea

Frank Hurley :: Cavern carved by the sea in an ice wall near Commonwealth Bay. From: Antarctic views | src State Library of New South Wales website (low-res)
Frank Hurley :: A man (Leslie H. Whetter?) stands in a cavern carved by the sea in an ice wall near Commonwealth Bay, 1911-1914. Silver gelatin photoprint. From: Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 : original pictorial material reproduced in the `Scientific reports'. | src State Library of New South Wales website & its Flickr account
Frank Hurley :: A man (Leslie H. Whetter?) stands in a cavern carved by the sea in an ice wall near Commonwealth Bay, 1911-1914. Silver gelatin photoprint. From: Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 : original pictorial material reproduced in the `Scientific reports’. | src State Library of New South Wales website & its Flickr account (hi-res)
Frank Hurley :: Cavern carved by the sea in an ice wall near Commonwealth Bay. From: Antarctic views | src State Library of New South Wales website (low-res)
Frank Hurley :: Cavern carved by the sea in an ice wall near Commonwealth Bay. From: Antarctic views | src State Library of New South Wales website (low-res)

Cyanotypes of Algae, 1843

‘Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions’ by Anna Atkins (1799-1871) Part 1 of Fox Talbot’s own copy, sewn in original blue wrapper. Atkins published a collection of cyanotype photograms of algae, in installments over ten years from 1843 to 1853. | src Science and Media Museum