The Somnambulists

The Somnambulists Photographic Portraits from Before Photography

Hardback (07 Feb 2008)

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Publisher's Synopsis

The life or death mask is in many ways the sculptural analogue of the photographic portrait. Both suggest direct traces from life, involve positive and negative, and evoke a mysterious connection between a living, breathing subject and a captured image. Through her photographs, Joanna Kane has taken her subjects out of the categories and hierarchies of their phrenological context. They no longer appear as disembodied scientific specimens but as photographically embodied portraits of men and women - many of whom lived before the invention of photography.

Book information

ISBN: 9781904587569
Publisher: Dewi Lewis Publishing
Imprint: Dewi Lewis Publishing
Pub date:
DEWEY: 779.2092
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 112
Weight: 1032g
Height: 305mm
Width: 248mm
Spine width: 17mm