Dissection Photography

Cadavers, Abjection, and the Formation of Identity

AvBrandon Zimmerman

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

Contemporary audiences are often shocked to learn that in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, medical students around the world posed for photographic portraits with their cadavers; a genre known as dissection photography. Featuring previously unseen images, stories, and anecdotes, this book explores the visual culture of death within the gross anatomy lab through the tradition of dissection photography, examining its historical aspects from both photographic and medical perspectives. The author pays particular attention to the use of dissection photographs as an expression of student identity, and as an evolving transgressive ritual intricately connected to, and eventually superseding, the act of dissection itself.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-02-27
Mått:156 x 234 x 22 mm
Vikt:564 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Death and Culture
Antal sidor:278
Förlag:Bristol University Press
ISBN:9781529222180

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Brandon Zimmerman has worked as an exhibit developer, designer, curator, and consultant for numerous museums, libraries, and archives throughout the United States for 20 years. He holds an MA in Photographic Preservation and Collections Management from the University of Rochester.

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“Vividly detailed, incisively analytical, and thoroughly engaging, this is a welcome contribution to our understanding of dissection room portraiture, an iconic genre of medical photography and a revealing wedge into turn-of-the-century medical culture.” John Harley Warner, Yale University

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: My Companions in Misery1. The Stages of an Evolving Genre 2. Photography Is Dead 3. Defining Disgust: Abjection, Photography, and the Cadaver4. Is Dissection Photography Really a Genre?5. Iconographic Ambiguities 6. A Necessary Inhumanity7. No One Ever Did: Dissection Photography and Female Identity8. Of Sharp Minds and Sharpened Tools: Dissection Photography and the Ambiguity of the Scalpel9. Flesh in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction10. Location, Location, Location11. Anatomical Deuteranopia12. To Begin without Fear13. The Cadaver as (Self-)PortraitConclusion: “Learning to Fight Death Next to Death Itself”