Zimmerman Dissection Photography

Cadavers, Abjection, and the Formation of Identity
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-5292-2219-7
Verlag: Bristol University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Death and Culture

Contemporary audiences are often shocked to learn that in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, medical students around the world posed for photographic portraits with their cadavers; a genre known as dissection photography.

Featuring previously unseen images, stories, and anecdotes, this book explores the visual culture of death within the gross anatomy lab through the tradition of dissection photography, examining its historical aspects from both photographic and medical perspectives.

The author pays particular attention to the use of dissection photographs as an expression of student identity, and as an evolving transgressive ritual intricately connected to, and eventually superseding, the act of dissection itself.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zimmerman, Brandon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie des Brauchtums und der Traditionen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Tod, Sterbehilfe: Soziale und Ethische Themen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Ethische Themen & Debatten
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: My Companions in Misery

1. The Stages of an Evolving Genre

2. Photography Is Dead

3. Defining Disgust: Abjection, Photography, and the Cadaver

4. Is Dissection Photography Really a Genre?

5. Iconographic Ambiguities

6. A Necessary Inhumanity

7. No One Ever Did: Dissection Photography and Female Identity

8. Of Sharp Minds and Sharpened Tools: Dissection Photography and the Ambiguity of the Scalpel

9. Flesh in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

10. Location, Location, Location

11. Anatomical Deuteranopia

12. To Begin without Fear

13. The Cadaver as (Self-)Portrait

Conclusion: “Learning to Fight Death Next to Death Itself”

Über Autor(innen)

Zimmerman, Brandon
Brandon Zimmerman has worked as an exhibit developer, designer, curator, and consultant for numerous museums, libraries, and archives throughout the United States for almost 20 years. He holds an MA in Photographic Preservation and Collections Management from the University of Rochester.

Brandon Zimmerman has worked as an exhibit developer, designer, curator, and consultant for numerous museums, libraries, and archives throughout the United States for 20 years. He holds an MA in Photographic Preservation and Collections Management from the University of Rochester.