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A French Commandant’s belief that he could photograph the inner workings of the mind has important lessons for modern science.
By Josh Gabbatiss
17 January 2017
Spare a thought for poor Madame Darget. How she must have sighed when her husband bounded over to the sofa in his office where she was attempting to rest. In his hands, he clutched a box of photographic plates.
“I am going to put out the lamp and try to take a fluidic print over my forehead,” Louis Darget later reported himself as telling her. “I will hand you a plate for you to do it as well.”
Dutifully, Mme. Darget held the plate about an inch in front of her face as her husband had instructed and, in the darkness, felt her eyelids droop. She was awakened with a jerk as the cool, smooth plate pressed against her face.
The next day, Commandant Darget burst into his wife’s room brandishing the developed photograph. Beneath the ill-defined, bird-shaped blur on the paper, her husband had scrawled in his loopy handwriting: “Photographie du reve. L’Aigle.” It translates as “Dream photography. The Eagle.” (see image, below)
Continued with photographs at link:
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170116-the-man-who-tried-to-photograph-thoughts-and-dreams
More of his photos here:
https://www.tumblr.com/search/louis darget
By Josh Gabbatiss
17 January 2017
Spare a thought for poor Madame Darget. How she must have sighed when her husband bounded over to the sofa in his office where she was attempting to rest. In his hands, he clutched a box of photographic plates.
“I am going to put out the lamp and try to take a fluidic print over my forehead,” Louis Darget later reported himself as telling her. “I will hand you a plate for you to do it as well.”
Dutifully, Mme. Darget held the plate about an inch in front of her face as her husband had instructed and, in the darkness, felt her eyelids droop. She was awakened with a jerk as the cool, smooth plate pressed against her face.
The next day, Commandant Darget burst into his wife’s room brandishing the developed photograph. Beneath the ill-defined, bird-shaped blur on the paper, her husband had scrawled in his loopy handwriting: “Photographie du reve. L’Aigle.” It translates as “Dream photography. The Eagle.” (see image, below)
Continued with photographs at link:
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170116-the-man-who-tried-to-photograph-thoughts-and-dreams
More of his photos here:
https://www.tumblr.com/search/louis darget
