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Album of skin diseases from the Broca Hospital, Paris

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PHOTOGRAPHER UNKNOWN
Unknown Photographer
Album of skin diseases from the Broca Hospital, Paris
104 gelatin silver prints. Circa 1907-1908. The majority annotated in ink on the recto. Signed by the owner, dated and inscribed Interne Broca. J'en une (?) de M. J. Darien in ink on the flyleaf.
Varying sizes from 6 x 4in. (17.2 x 12cm.) to 4 x 3in. (12.1 x 8.9cm.) Contained in an oblong 4to album with black board covers.

Specialist note

At the turn of the century, the Broca Hospital in Paris was a thriving center for the treatment of skin diseases. The album, belonging to one of the institution's interns, records - in many instances in horrifying detail - the wretched condition of patients photographed as case studies. Some time later, Salvador Dali may have seen the album, using one of the images - a man with goitre - as the subject of a painting.