"Hysteria and the helio-trope: On bodies, gender and the photograph" by Dore Bowen

Article

Hysteria and the helio-trope: On bodies, gender and the photograph

Afterimage (1999)

Dore Bowen, San Francisco State University

Abstract

The contradictory nature of the photograph is explored in terms of being an accurate witness or document of the human body. The photograph's indexical relationship brings the body of the viewer into relationship with the body that animates the image.

Disciplines

Photography and
Theory and Criticism

Publication Date

1999

Publisher Statement

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Citation Information

Dore Bowen. "Hysteria and the helio-trope: On bodies, gender and the photograph" Afterimage Vol. 26 Iss. 4 (1999)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/dore_bowen/6/