Visual Plague: The Emergence of Epidemic Photography by Lynteris, Christos
Visual Plague: The Emergence of Epidemic Photography by Lynteris, Christos

Visual Plague: The Emergence of Epidemic Photography

How epidemic photography during a global pandemic of bubonic plague contributed to the development of modern epidemiology...
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Author: Christos Lynteris
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Visual Plague: The Emergence of Epidemic Photography by Lynteris, Christos

Visual Plague: The Emergence of Epidemic Photography

$151.52
Visual Plague: The Emergence of Epidemic Photography by Lynteris, Christos

Visual Plague: The Emergence of Epidemic Photography

$151.52
Author: Christos Lynteris
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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How epidemic photography during a global pandemic of bubonic plague contributed to the development of modern epidemiology and our concept of the "pandemic."

In Visual Plague, Christos Lynteris examines the emergence of epidemic photography during the third plague pandemic (1894-1959), a global pandemic of bubonic plague that led to over twelve million deaths. Unlike medical photography, epidemic photography was not exclusively, or even primarily, concerned with exposing the patient's body or medical examinations and operations. Instead, it played a key role in reconceptualizing infectious diseases by visualizing the "pandemic" as a new concept and structure of experience--one that frames and responds to the smallest local outbreak of an infectious disease as an event of global importance and consequence.

As the third plague pandemic struck more and more countries, the international circulation of plague photographs in the press generated an unprecedented spectacle of imminent global threat. Nothing contributed to this sense of global interconnectedness, anticipation, and fear more than photography. Exploring the impact of epidemic photography at the time of its emergence, Lynteris highlights its entanglement with colonial politics, epistemologies, and aesthetics, as well as with major shifts in epidemiological thinking and public health practice. He explores the characteristics, uses, and impact of epidemic photography and how it differs from the general corpus of medical photography. The new photography was used not simply to visualize or illustrate a pandemic, but to articulate, respond to, and unsettle key questions of epidemiology and epidemic control, as well as to foster the notion of the "pandemic," which continues to affect our lives today.

Author: Christos Lynteris
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 10/25/2022
Pages: 322
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780262544221
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