Reasoned and Unreasoned Images

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1: Criminality, Identity, and the “Unreasoned Image”

1 “To Fix the Human Personality”: Archived Bodies and Ideal Lenses

2 Mnemonic Economies or Galleries of Paintings

3 Educated Eyes and Moments of Repose

Part 2: Portraits of the Invisible

4 The Monstrous, the Meaningless, and Margins of Error

5 “The Basis of a Very High Order of Artistic Work”

6 Images and Antecedents

Part 3: Camera and Mind

7 Making Sense

8 Creatures of Reason

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

“[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.”

—Kelley Wilder, Isis: Journal of the History of Science Society