head research: November 2012

11/30/12

11/28/12

Richard Loeb

along with Nathan Leopold, murdered 14-years-old Robert "Bobby" Franks in 1924 and were sentenced to life imprisonment. The duo were motivated to murder Franks by their desire to commit a perfect crime. Once apprehended, Leopold and Loeb retained Clarence Darrow as counsel for the defense. Darrow’s summation in their trial is noted for its influential criticism of capital punishment and retributive, as opposed to rehabilitative, penal systems. Leopold and Loeb have been the inspiration for several works in film, theater, and fiction, such as the 1929 play Rope by Patrick Hamilton and Alfred Hitchcock's 1948 film of the same name. - Wikipedia

11/27/12

Actress Sylvia Sidney's face

used as a guide for beauty, 1934

Head of a man with a severe disease affecting his face and scalp.

Watercolour by Christopher D' Alton, 1872

11/24/12

Removal of epithelioma by plastic surgery.

11/23/12

Head of a man with a severe disease affecting his face.

Watercolour by Christopher D' Alton

11/19/12

The superficial lymph circulation of the face

11/17/12

Nuhn, Anton

Surgical-anatomical plates (Division 1)-

Illustrations of the surgical anatomy of the head and neck including Mannheim, 1846(detail)

11/16/12

Anatomical atlas of the human body- natural size, location and connection

MI Weber 1930's

11/15/12

Early makeup design by Dick Smith

11/14/12

Head of mummy of parapoh Amenhotep III

G. Elliot Smith, 1912

11/13/12

Navajo man wearing mask of Ganaskidi,

god of harvests, plenty, and of mists.

Edward Curtis, ca.1905

11/12/12

The mounted head of a wild boar

killed in the Cherokee National Forest.

Date- 5/9/1941

11/10/12

Injuries and diseases of the jaws

The Jacksonian prize essay

of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1867
(3rd edition,1884)
by Christopher Heath

11/9/12

World War I soildiers' face casts

by Anna Coleman Ladd

in her RedCross "Studio for Portrait-Masks", 1918

In late 1917, in Paris, Ladd founded the American Red Cross "Studio for Portrait-Masks" to provide cosmetic masks to be worn by men who had been badly disfigured in World War I...Soldiers would come to Ladd's studio to have a cast made of their face and their features sculpted onto clay or plasticine. This form was then used to construct the prosthetic piece from extremely thin galvanized copper. The metal was painted to resemble the recipient's skin, and the prosthesis was donned with strings or eyeglasses for retention much like the prosthetics created in Francis Derwent Wood's "Tin Noses Shop" -Wikipedia