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In 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.
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Tanya Sheehan is Assistant Professor of Art History at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
1 Educating "Doctors of Photography": Medical Models and the Institutionalization of Photographic Knowledge 26
2 Making Faces and Taking off Heads: The Operations of Photography and Medicine 48
3 "Panes Curing Pains": Light as Medicine in the Photographic Studio 81
4 A Matter of Public Health: Photographic Chemistry and the (Re) production of Healthy Bodies 106
5 Photo Doctors and Pixel Surgeons: The Medicine of Photography in the Digital Age 132
Appendix: Philadelphia Photographic Periodicals 1864-1890 151
Notes 155
Selected Bibliography 182
Index 196