1. Images of the Real
The photograph/daguerrotype as a cataylst of social and cognitive transformation in the
19th and early 20th century

2. Images of the Read
The photograph was (and still is) a kind of pharmakon with regard to our thirst for reality. It both amplifies and challenges our faith in the notion that seeing is knowing/believing/possessing.

3. Daguerre, 1839

4. Daguerre- 1839

5. Charles Marville, rue de Constantine, Paris, 1865

6. Edgar Allen Poe
All language must fall short of conveying any just idea of the truth…. Perhaps, if we imagine the distinctness with which an object is reflected in a positively perfect mirror, we come as near the reality as by any other means. For, in truth, the Daguerreotyped plate is infinitely (we use the term advisedly) is infinitely  more accurate in its representation than any painting by human hands. If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear--but the closest scrutiny of the photogenic drawing discloses only a more absolute truth, a more perfect identity of aspect with the thing rep resented. The variations of shade, and the gradations of both linear and aerial perspective are those of truth itself in the supremeness of its perfection…

7. Hippolyte Bayard, 1839

8. Muybridge-1887

9. Muybridge- 1883

10. Maray- 1890

11. P. Emerson, Picking the reed (1886)

12. Talbot Fox- Open Door 1844

13. A. Garner, Lincoln, 1865

14. A. Garner, Lincoln Conspirator, 1865

15. M. Brady, Confederate Dead,

16. M. Brady, Confederate Dead

18. More on photography and Death

19. JT Zealy, Jack, 1850

21. More on Photography and the “other”

23. More on Photography and the “other”
Note how the photograph serves as a disciplinary technology (in at least two ways):

24. More on Photography and the “other”
Note how the photograph serves as a disciplinary technology (in at least two ways):
It encourages people to take pleasure in scrutinizing their own images and the images of others for health, fitness, happiness, morality, etc.

25. More on Photography and the “other”
Note how the photograph serves as a disciplinary technology (in at least two ways):
It encourages people to take pleasure in scrutinizing their own images and the images of others for health, fitness, happiness, morality, etc.
It facilitates the surveillance and control of deviants.

26. More on Photography and the “other”
Note: Many new technologies sold to the middle class are simultaneously imposed on the poor.

27. More on Photography and the “other”
Note: Many new technologies sold to the middle class are simultaneously imposed on the poor. Each in their way become subject to what Foucault calls compulsory visibility.

30. Galton, Composite Photograph of TB patients-1885

32. Galton, Composite of Jewish Type

33. Savage Man-eaters of New Guinea (steroscopic)

34. Lewis Hine- Crippled Steel Worker, Pittsburgh, 1908)

35. Lewis Hine- 1908 (pittsburgh)

36. Lewis Hine, Child Factory Worker

37. Lewis Hine, Factory Worker

38. Lewis Hine, Factory Workers

39. Lewis Hine: 1910 (St Louis)

40. Lewis Hine

41. Man Ray

42. Hans Bellmer, The Doll, 1934

44. André Kertész, Broken Plate, 1929

46. Ruben Salvadori