Visual plague : the emergence of epidemic photography / Christos Lynteris.

"Visual Plague claims that what epidemic photography did, besides the individual visualization of each outbreak it depicted, was to transform the way in which we relate to infectious diseases, as both biological and historical agents"-- Provided by publisher.

"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."--From back cover.

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2022]

xviii, 304 pages : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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