Albert Londe
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Albert Londe (1858-1917) was a French photographer. He is remembered for his work as a medical photographer at the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris, as well as being a pioneer in X-ray photography.
In 1878 neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot hired Londe as a medical photographer at the Salpêtrière. In 1882 Londe devises a system to photograph the physical and muscular movements of patients, including epileptic seizures. He accomplishes this by having a camera with nine lenses that were triggered by electromagnetic energy, and with the use of a metronome, the ability to sequentially time the release of the shutters. This configuration took in quick succession, photos on a glass plate. A few years later Londe developed a camera with twelve lenses for photographing movement.
With Étienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904), Londe performed many photographic experiments concerning 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.
