VISA 1Q98 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Hugh Welch Diamond, Artstor, Visual Culture
16 Feb 2016
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Spectatorship, the gaze, modernity, panopticon, surveillance, power, binary, oppositions, Spectatorship the fact that visually engaging with images is always part of a broader context. Hugh welch diamond doctor who photograph his mental ill patients. Believe in physiognomy, a popular concept at this time. By examining images like this one taken by dr. diamond in the context of power . Ideas of medicine and gender would shape how images like this would be made and viewed. French photographer, e. thi sson photograph many residents of mozambique during the 1840"s. Most of his subjects, aren"t name, but often referred as native women . Power dynamics seen in such images women is not in control. Another example of this is the photographs of j. t. Were slaves from a north carolina plantation were photograph from the front, back, and the sides. The photograph were commissioned by louis agassiz, who wanted to proved that africans were not genetically linked to.
