Doctored
The Medicine of Photography in Nineteenth-Century America
Seiten
2013
Pennsylvania State University Press (Verlag)
978-0-271-03793-6 (ISBN)
Pennsylvania State University Press (Verlag)
978-0-271-03793-6 (ISBN)
Examines the relationship between photography and medicine in American culture. Focuses on the American Civil War and postbellum Philadelphia to explore how medical models and metaphors helped establish the professional legitimacy of commercial photography while promoting belief in the rehabilitative powers of studio portraiture.
In Doctored, Tanya Sheehan takes a new look at the relationship between photography and medicine in American culture from the nineteenth century to the present. Sheehan focuses on Civil War and postbellum Philadelphia, exploring the ways in which medical models and metaphors helped strengthen the professional legitimacy of the city’s commercial photographic community at a time when it was not well established. By reading the trade literature and material practices of portrait photography and medicine in relation to one another, she shows how their interaction defined the space of the urban portrait studio as well as the physical and social effects of studio operations. Integrating the methods of social art history, science studies, and media studies, Doctored reveals important connections between the professionalization of American photographers and the construction of photography’s cultural identity.
In Doctored, Tanya Sheehan takes a new look at the relationship between photography and medicine in American culture from the nineteenth century to the present. Sheehan focuses on Civil War and postbellum Philadelphia, exploring the ways in which medical models and metaphors helped strengthen the professional legitimacy of the city’s commercial photographic community at a time when it was not well established. By reading the trade literature and material practices of portrait photography and medicine in relation to one another, she shows how their interaction defined the space of the urban portrait studio as well as the physical and social effects of studio operations. Integrating the methods of social art history, science studies, and media studies, Doctored reveals important connections between the professionalization of American photographers and the construction of photography’s cultural identity.
Tanya Sheehan is Associate Professor in the Art Department at Colby College.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1Educating “Doctors of Photography”: Medical Models and the Institutionalization of Photographic Knowledge
2Making Faces and Taking Off Heads: The Operations of Photography and Medicine
3“Panes Curing Pains”: Light as Medicine in the Photographic Studio
4A Matter of Public Health: Photographic Chemistry and the (Re)production of Healthy Bodies
5Photo Doctors and Pixel Surgeons: The Medicine of Photography in the Digital Age
Appendix: Philadelphia Photographic Periodicals, 1864–1890
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.5.2013 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 44 Halftones, black and white |
| Verlagsort | University Park |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
| Gewicht | 431 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-271-03793-8 / 0271037938 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-271-03793-6 / 9780271037936 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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