Analytical Photography: Portraiture, From the Index to the Epidermis

Authors

Ken Gonzales-Day, Scripps CollegeFollow

Document Type

Article - postprint

Department

Art (Scripps)

Publication Date

2002

Disciplines

Art Practice | Arts and Humanities

Abstract

The current abundance of scholarship concerning the technological development of photography has coexisted with a proportionate absence of recent critical analysis of photographic images. Given photography's long-standing embrace of technological advances, even predating the portable camera or roll film, this article revisits some early uses of scientific photography in order to clarify the impact of digital technology on contemporary photographic practice. The author uses scientific photography and photographic archives as the groundwork for photographic experiments into what might be called analytical photography. This essay concludes with a reconsideration of the photographic portrait.

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Scan of journal article post-print, posted with permission.

See the Ken Gonzales-Day collection - http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/collection.php?alias=kgd.

Previously linked to as: http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/u?/irw,231

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© 2002 MIT Press

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Recommended Citation

Gonzales-Day, Ken. "Analytical Photography: Portraiture, from the Index to the Epidermis." Leonardo: Journal for the International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology 35.1 (2002): 23-30.