Doctored : the medicine of photography in nineteenth-century America Tanya Sheehan

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sheehan, Tanya, 1976-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical photography--United States--History--19th century.

Medical photography.

Photography--United States--History--19th century.

Photography.

Medicine--United States--History.

Medicine.

Photography--United States--History.

Portraits--United States--History.

Portraits.

Physical Description:

xiv, 202 p. : ill., map ; 27 cm.

Other Title:

Medicine of photography in nineteenth-century America

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2011.

Summary:

"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"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Educating "doctors of photography" : medical models and the institutionalization of photographic knowledge

Making faces and taking off heads : the operations of photography and medicine

"Panes curing pains" : light as medicine in the photographic studio

A matter of public health : photographic chemistry and the (re)production of healthy bodies

Photo doctors and pixel surgeons : the medicine of photography in the digital age.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

HSP Credit Line: C. Cohill, Root Gallery, 5th and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, 1866. Penrose Pictorial Philadelphia Collection [v60], p.5. Markoe House, 929 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, ca. 1875. Photograph Collection [V50], p.84.

ISBN:

9780271037929 (cloth : alk. paper)

027103792X (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

671385498