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"Examines the relationship between photography and medicine in American culture. Focuses on the American Civil War and postbellum Philadelphia to explore how medical models and metaphors helped establish the professional legitimacy of commercial photography while promoting belief in the rehabilitative powers of studio portraiture"--Provided by publisher.

Product details

• Authors: Tanya Sheehan, Tanya (Colby College Sheehan, Tanya (William R. Kenan Sheehan
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2012
• EAN: 9780271037936
• ISBN: 978-0-271-03793-6
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Portraits & Selfies, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, PHOTOGRAPHY / History, History of the Americas, Photographs: Portraits, Art & Design Styles: Pre-Raphaelite Art, Photography: portraits and self-portraiture