Reasoned and Unreasoned Images: The Photography of Bertillon, Galton, and Marey - Couverture souple

Ellenbogen, Josh

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0271053267 ISBN 13 : 9780271053264

Editeur : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013

Synopsis

In the last decades of the nineteenth century, photography underwent one of the most momentous transformations in its history, a renegotiation of the camera&;s relationship to the visible world. Reasoned and Unreasoned Images considers in detail the work of three photographic investigators who developed new uses for the medium that centered on &;the photography of the invisible&;: Alphonse Bertillon, Francis Galton, and Etienne-Jules Marey. Bertillon attempted to establish a &;science of identity&; by making photographic records of criminal bodies. Galton may be said to have taken photographs of ideas: he sought to create accurate yet abstract images of such entities as &;the criminal&; and &;the lunatic.&; And Marey, a physiologist, created photographic visualizations of nonvisible events&;the positions through which bodies pass so quickly that they cannot be seen. Ellenbogen approaches the work of these photographers as a means to develop new theoretical perspectives on questions of broad interest in the humanities: the relation of photographs to the world and their use as agents of knowledge, the intersections between artistic and scientific images, the place of painting and drawing in photography&;s historical employment, and the use of imaging technologies in systems of social control and surveillance.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Josh Ellenbogen is Director of Graduate Studies and Assistant Professor of the History of Art at the University of Pittsburgh.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0271053267
• ISBN 13: 9780271053264
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 280
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• Personne responsable: non disponible