Artist: Hugh Welch Diamond (1809 - 1886)
Nationality:British
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Media: Photography
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Biography:
Dr. Hugh Welch Diamond first started photographing three months after William Henry Fox Talbot unveiled his invention in 1839. The Photographic Society of London was created in 1853 from weekly gatherings of artists and intellectuals that Diamond held at his Wadsworth, London home. He held the position of secretary and was editor of the Society’s Photographic Journal for a decade. From 1848 to 1858, Dr. Diamond used his hobby in his profession, documenting the facial expressions of patients with mental disorders at the Surrey Country Asylum. He used these pictures to support his theory that a patients’ diagnosis could be deduced from their facial features. Diamond was also an honorary photographer for the Society of Antiquaries for which he photographed antiques and wrote weekly articles for the periodical.

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