It has been suggested that Duchenne de Boulogne be merged into this article or section. (Discuss)

Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine. ou, Analyse électro-physiologique de l'expression des passions des arts plastiques. is a monograph on the muscles of facial expression, researched and written by Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne, (1806-1875). It first appeared as an abstract published in Archives générales de médecine,^[1] in 1862 and was then published in three formats comprised of two octavo editions and one quarto edition. The work was an important resource used by Charles Darwin (1809-1882) for his own study on physiognomy titled, The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals,^[2] but in recent years it has been reclaimed as an important landmark in the history of the photographic arts.

[edit] Notes

[edit] References

• Duchenne, G.-B. (1862), Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse électro-physiologique de ses différents modes de l'expression. Paris: Archives générales de médecine, P. Asselin; vol. 1, p. 29-47, 152-174.
• Darwin, Charles Robert (1872), The expression of the emotions in man and animals. London: John Murray London.

[edit] External links

• Cabinet of Art and Medicine.