Cleveland Museum of Art

Figure 51: À droite, contraction partielle de l'élévateur commun de l'aile du nez et de la lèvre supérieure: mécontentement, mauvaise humeur; à gauche, repos

Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne

Date: c. 1856, printed 1862
Medium: Albumen print from glass plate negative
Department: Photography
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art

This photograph is part of the first systematic exploration of the physiology of human facial expression. In order to demonstrate how each individual muscle contributed to creating an expression, Duchenne stimulated one or more muscles on one side of the face and left the other at rest. Duchenne, a neurologist at a hospital for the poor in Paris, turned to photography to record the grammar of human expression.

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