Gustav Zander

I found this image in the 'Sloth' issue of Cabinet magazine, the article 'The Origins of Cybex Space' detailed Gustav Zander's Stockholm institute, founded in the late nineteenth century, where he treated children and male workers for physical impairments brought about by accidents of birth and hard labour. Zander's machines were the result of his argument that 'progressive exertion' was more effective than the popular cures of the time, such as acrobatics.

I really enjoy the way the man is holding such an awkward position but retaining a very serious face, almost as if it was normal practice during the 1800s to remain at a diagonal at all times.