03017namaa2200385uu 4500 doab101649 oapen 20260305123952.0 m o d cr|mn|---annan 230719s2022 xx |||||o ||| 0|eng d 9780262544221 9780262544221 mitpress/14413.001.0001 10.7551/mitpress/14413.001.0001 doi oapen oapen eng dc AJ bicssc Lynteris, Christos aut Visual Plague The Emergence of Epidemic Photography Cambridge The MIT Press 2022 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Free-to-read Unrestricted online access star How epidemic photography during a global pandemic of bubonic plague contributed to the development of modern epidemiology and our concept of the "pandemic." In Visual Plague, Christos Lynteris examines the emergence of epidemic photography during the third plague pandemic (1894-1959), a global pandemic of bubonic plague that led to over twelve million deaths. Unlike medical photography, epidemic photography was not exclusively, or even primarily, concerned with exposing the patient's body or medical examinations and operations. Instead, it played a key role in reconceptualizing infectious diseases by visualizing the "pandemic" as a new concept and structure of experience-one that frames and responds to the smallest local outbreak of an infectious disease as an event of global importance and consequence. As the third plague pandemic struck more and more countries, the international circulation of plague photographs in the press generated an unprecedented spectacle of imminent global threat. Nothing contributed to this sense of global interconnectedness, anticipation, and fear more than photography. Exploring the impact of epidemic photography at the time of its emergence, Lynteris highlights its entanglement with colonial politics, epistemologies, and aesthetics, as well as with major shifts in epidemiological thinking and public health practice. He explores the characteristics, uses, and impact of epidemic photography and how it differs from the general corpus of medical photography. The new photography was used not simply to visualize or illustrate a pandemic, but to articulate, respond to, and unsettle key questions of epidemiology and epidemic control, as well as to foster the notion of the "pandemic," which continues to affect our lives today. All rights reserved http://oapen.org/content/about-rights English Photography & photographs bicssc Epedemics; history; photography DOAB Library. https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/101649 0 Free-to-read: DOAB: description of the publication 93134 93134