Attitudes passionnelles  

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Attitudes passionnelles is the informal title given to a series of ten photographs first published in the book Iconographie photographique de la Salpêtrière (1875 - 1879), which carried as first caption "ATTITUDES PASSIONNELLES". The photos depict Salpêtrière star patient Louise Augustine The most famous of the series are Planche XXIII[1] and Planche XXVI[2].

The second-level captions are as follows: Planche XVIII – “Ménace,”[3] Planche XIX – “Appel,”[4] Planche XX – “Supplication Amoureuse,”[5] Planche XXI – “Erotisme,”[6] Planche XXII – “Extase (1876),”[7] Planche XXIII – “Extase (1878),”[8] Planche XXIV – “Hallucinations de l'Ouïe,” Planche XXV – “Crucifiement[9],” Planche XXVI – “Moquérie,”[10] and Planche XXVII - Menace[11].

See also

• Iconographie photographique de la Salpêtrière (1875 - 1879) by Désiré-Magloire Bourneville and Paul Regnard
• Louise Augustine
• Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpetriere (Macula, 1982) by Georges Didi-Huberman
• Mental disorders in art

References

• Found, borrowed and stolen: the use of photographs in French surrealist reviews, 1924-1939 (2006) by Linda Marie Steer
• Planche XXIV – “Hallucinations de l'Ouïe,” is [12]?