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Place of Birth: La Ciotat, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
About Albert Londe
- Albert Londe (26 November 1858 – 11 September 1917) was an influential French photographer, medical researcher and chronophotographer.
- He is remembered for his work as a medical photographer at the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris, funded by the Parisian authorities, as well as being a pioneer in X-ray photography. During his two decades at the Salpêtrière, Albert Londe developed into arguably the most outstanding scientific photographer of his time. In 1878 neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot hired Londe as a medical photographer at the Salpêtrière.
- In 1882 Londe devised a system to photograph the physical and muscular movements of patients (including individuals experiencing epileptic seizures).
- This he accomplished by using a camera with nine lenses that were triggered by electromagnetic energy, and with the use of a metronome he was able to sequentially time the release of the shutters, therefore taking photos onto glass plates in quick succession.
- A few years later Londe developed a camera with twelve lenses for photographing movement. Londe's camera was also used for medical studies of muscle movement in subjects performing actions as diverse as those of a tightrope-walking and blacksmithing.
- The sequence of twelve pictures could be created for durations from 1/10 of a second to several seconds. Although the apparatus was used primarily for medical research, Londe noted that it was portable, and he used it for other subjects - for example, horses and other animals and ocean waves.
- General Sobert developed, in conjunction with Londe, a chronophotographic device used to study ballistics.
- Londe's pictures were used as illustrations in several books, most notably those by Paul Richer, that were widely read by the medical and artistic fraternity. With Étienne-Jules Marey (1830–1904), Londe performed many photographic experiments of movement, and the layout of his laboratory at the Salpêtrière was similar to Marey's renowned Station Physiologique.
- In 1893 Londe published the first book on medical photography, titled La photographie médicale: Application aux sciences médicales et physiologiques.
- In 1898 he published Traité pratique de radiographie et de radioscope: technique et applications médicales. Londe also published six journals.
- Albert Londe's 12-lens camera of 1891 was illustrated in the journal 'La Nature', 1893.
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