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OverviewIn 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Tanya Sheehan (William R. Kenan, Jr. Associate Professor and Chair of Art, Colby College)Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 0.662kg ISBN: 9780271037929ISBN 10: 027103792 Pages: 216 Publication Date: 28 March 2011 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Educating “Doctors of Photography”: Medical Models and the Institutionalization of Photographic Knowledge 2 Making Faces and Taking Off Heads: The Operations of Photography and Medicine 3 “Panes Curing Pains”: Light as Medicine in the Photographic Studio 4 A Matter of Public Health: Photographic Chemistry and the (Re)production of Healthy Bodies 5 Photo Doctors and Pixel Surgeons: The Medicine of Photography in the Digital Age Appendix: Philadelphia Photographic Periodicals, 1864–1890 Notes Selected Bibliography IndexReviewsSheehan s examination of medical photography in light of the larger dynamics of nineteenth-century photographic portraiture offers a way to integrate the history of medical photography with the history of Civil War photography. Andrea Volpe, The Journal of the Civil War Era Doctored, by Tanya Sheehan, draws fascinating connections between the early days of studio photography and established medical practices of the day. . . . [Sheehan] spends a great deal of time discussing the cultural history of Victorian Philadelphia, explaining not just the similarities between medicine and photography but also the general public view of photography and its impact on race relations as well as a person's place in society. This book is just as much a historical account of Victorian American society as it is a history of the portrait photography industry. --Annie Moore, ICON: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology Tanya Sheehan . . . provides a unique, innovative comparative study of the development of the relationship between portrait and medical photography in Philadelphia during the nineteenth century. . . . Sheehan effectively demonstrates how the past has strongly influenced the present, richly contextualizing the doctoring of photographs. Elizabeth K. Mix, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide Author InformationTanya Sheehan is Associate Professor in the Art Department at Colby College. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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