Reasoned and Unreasoned Images

The Photography of Bertillon, Galton, and Marey

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

AvJosh Ellenbogen,Josh (University of Pittsburgh) Ellenbogen

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2013-11-15
Mått178 x 254 x 20 mm
Vikt544 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor280
FörlagPennsylvania State University Press
ISBN9780271053264

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ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1: Criminality, Identity, and the “Unreasoned Image”1“To Fix the Human Personality”: Archived Bodies and Ideal Lenses2Mnemonic Economies or Galleries of Paintings3Educated Eyes and Moments of ReposePart 2: Portraits of the Invisible4The Monstrous, the Meaningless, and Margins of Error5“The Basis of a Very High Order of Artistic Work”6Images and AntecedentsPart 3: Camera and Mind7Making Sense8Creatures of ReasonConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

“Reasoned and Unreasoned Images is a fascinating discussion of photography in the second half of the nineteenth century. Josh Ellenbogen raises interesting questions concerning the nature of evidence that are still being discussed in current work on the philosophy of science and, in particular, the philosophy of experiment. In short, this is a first-rate piece of scholarship, with the additional bonus that it is a good read.”—Allan D. Franklin, University of Colorado, Boulder