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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 cameraâs 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 âthe photography of the invisibleâ: Alphonse Bertillon, Francis Galton, and Etienne-Jules Marey. Bertillon attempted to establish a âscience of identityâ 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 âthe criminalâ and âthe lunatic.â And Marey, a physiologist, created photographic visualizations of nonvisible eventsâthe 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 photographyâs historical employment, and the use of imaging technologies in systems of social control and surveillance.
About: In the last decades of the nineteenth century, photography underwent one of the most momentous transformations in its history, a renegotiation of the cameraâs relationship to the visible world.
This edition also contains Movement and Meaning: Creativity and Interpretation in Ballet and Mime
About: In the last decades of the nineteenth century, photography underwent one of the most momentous transformations in its history, a renegotiation of the cameraâs relationship to the visible world.
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