Bodies in the psychiatric hospital, the gaze and the camera: from the possibility of representation of madness in the 19th century
Meira Del Busto
Broschiertes Buch

Bodies in the psychiatric hospital, the gaze and the camera: from the possibility of representation of madness in the 19th century

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Photography for science in the 19th century was understood as the preferred mechanism for capturing reality beyond what the human eye could see. During the process of expansion of the photographic apparatus, the use of photography served multiple purposes: experimental, pedagogical and informative around the new discoveries of science. We are interested in thinking of medical photography as a document that can give an account of the relations between power, discourse and visual culture, proposing its analysis from a critical approach in which the representative character of the image is though...