DR. HUGH WELCH DIAMOND

Woman with hair standing on end, 1850s

細節

DR. HUGH WELCH DIAMOND
Woman with hair standing on end, 1850s
Albumen print, 5¼ x 4 in., the image masked to oval, matted.

出版

Gilman, The Face of Madness: Hugh Welch Diamond and the Origin of Psychiatric Photography; Burrows & Schumacher, Portraits of the Insane/The Case of Dr. Diamond

拍品專文

Dr. Diamond was the director of Springfield Hospital, the Surrey County Lunatic Asylum and began to make photographic studies of patients around 1850. These are the first photographic studies of the insane. Dr. Diamond's prints survive in several institutional collections including the Royal Society of Medicine, London; Norfolk Record Office, Norwich; and The Royal Photographic Society, Bath. Only a small number of prints have appeared on the market.