{"product_id":"reasoned-and-unreasoned-images-9780271053264","title":"Reasoned and Unreasoned Images","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamines three projects in late nineteenth-century scientific photography: the endeavors of Alphonse Bertillon, Francis Galton, and Etienne-Jules Marey. Develops new theoretical perspectives on the history of photographic technology, as well as the history of scientific imaging more generally.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eReasoned and Unreasoned Images\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating discussion of photography in the second half of the nineteenth century. Josh Ellenbogen raises interesting questions concerning the nature of evidence that are still being discussed in current work on the philosophy of science and, in particular, the philosophy of experiment. In short, this is a first-rate piece of scholarship, with the additional bonus that it is a good read.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Allan D. Franklin,University of Colorado, Boulder\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Josh Ellenbogen offers a truly unique treatment of the nature of scientific uses of photography at the turn of the nineteenth century, one that will certainly be debated but whose value will lie in the specificity of its analysis and the originality of its argument. This will be an influential book, dealing with many contemporary issues in our understanding of photographic evidence and revealing their historical background. It has already influenced my own thinking.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Tom Gunning,University of Chicago\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Josh Ellenbogen’s \u003ci\u003eReasoned and Unreasoned Images\u003c\/i\u003e provides a significant theoretical discussion of photography’s aim to capture the visible and nonvisible and, more widely, of its complex relation to human perception, cognition, and memory. . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e[T]he journey the reader undertakes is guided by thought-provoking questions through a series of chapters that progressively build upon the previous one to form a layered work of interwoven arguments that cannot easily be pulled apart.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Tania Woloshyn \u003ci\u003eCAA Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“As an intellectual history of a period scientific use of photography, \u003ci\u003eReasoned and Unreasoned Images \u003c\/i\u003eis a rich and thorough account. There is much to be learned from its careful unpacking of the intellectual correspondences of Bertillon, Galton, and Marey and the development of a scientific understanding of photography and vision that resulted.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Blake Stimson \u003ci\u003eHistory of Photography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[This] book is an instructive and useful read and serves the purpose of bringing together the philosophy of experiment and period photographic theory, with fascinating results.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Kelley Wilder \u003ci\u003eIsis: Journal of the History of Science Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 1: Criminality, Identity, and the “Unreasoned Image”\t\u003c\/strong\u003e\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1\t“To Fix the Human Personality”: Archived Bodies and Ideal Lenses\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2\tMnemonic Economies or Galleries of Paintings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3\tEducated Eyes and Moments of Repose\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 2: Portraits of the Invisible\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4\tThe Monstrous, the Meaningless, and Margins of Error\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5\t“The Basis of a Very High Order of Artistic Work”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6\tImages and Antecedents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 3: Camera and Mind\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7\tMaking Sense\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8\tCreatures of Reason\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400788320599,"sku":"9780271053264","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reasoned-and-unreasoned-images-9780271053264","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}