Images of the Real The photographdaguerrotype as a

Images of the Real The photograph/daguerrotype as a cataylst of social and cognitive transformation in the 19 th and early 20 th century

Images of the Read The photograph was (and still is) a kind of pharmakon with regard to our thirst for reality. It both amplifies and challenges our faith in the notion that seeing is knowing/believing/possessing.

Daguerre, 1839

Daguerre- 1839

Charles Marville, rue de Constantine, Paris, 1865

Edgar Allen Poe All language must fall short of conveying any just idea of the truth…. Perhaps, if we imagine the distinctness with which an object is reflected in a positively perfect mirror, we come as near the reality as by any other means. For, in truth, the Daguerreotyped plate is infinitely (we use the term advisedly) is infinitely more accurate in its representation than any painting by human hands. If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear--but the closest scrutiny of the photogenic drawing discloses only a more absolute truth, a more perfect identity of aspect with the thing rep resented. The variations of shade, and the gradations of both linear and aerial perspective are those of truth itself in the supremeness of its perfection…

Hippolyte Bayard, 1839

Muybridge-1887

Muybridge- 1883

Maray- 1890

P. Emerson, Picking the reed (1886)

Talbot Fox- Open Door 1844

A. Garner, Lincoln, 1865

A. Garner, Lincoln Conspirator, 1865

M. Brady, Confederate Dead,

M. Brady, Confederate Dead

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JT Zealy, Jack, 1850

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More on Photography and the “other” Note how the photograph serves as a disciplinary technology (in at least two ways):

More on Photography and the “other” Note how the photograph serves as a disciplinary technology (in at least two ways): 1. It encourages people to take pleasure in scrutinizing their own images and the images of others for health, fitness, happiness, morality, etc.

More on Photography and the “other” Note how the photograph serves as a disciplinary technology (in at least two ways): 1. It encourages people to take pleasure in scrutinizing their own images and the images of others for health, fitness, happiness, morality, etc. 2. It facilitates the surveillance and control of deviants.

More on Photography and the “other” Note: Many new technologies sold to the middle class are simultaneously imposed on the poor.

More on Photography and the “other” Note: Many new technologies sold to the middle class are simultaneously imposed on the poor. Each in their way become subject to what Foucault calls compulsory visibility.

Galton, Composite Photograph of TB patients-1885

Galton, Composite of Jewish Type

Savage Man-eaters of New Guinea (steroscopic)

Lewis Hine- Crippled Steel Worker, Pittsburgh, 1908)

Lewis Hine- 1908 (pittsburgh)

Lewis Hine, Child Factory Worker

Lewis Hine, Factory Worker

Lewis Hine, Factory Workers

Lewis Hine: 1910 (St Louis)

Lewis Hine

Man Ray

Hans Bellmer, The Doll, 1934

André Kertész, Broken Plate, 1929

Ruben Salvadori