Abstract
Taking the slide collection of medical expert professor G.H.F. Nuttall as a starting point, this article investigates the
representations of the extraordinary human body in West-Europe lantern history and lantern heritage between 1880
and 1930. To explain the at first sight unfamiliar image repertoire of this collection, the authors place the object, the
medium and the aesthetical representations in a historical and cultural frame and compare the material on two levels.
Firstly, the authors apply a cross-media visual analysis to describe several modes in which the extraordinary body is
represented (cartes de visite, early cinema) and secondly, they trace the appearance of extraordinary bodies in other
genres within the medium of lantern slides.
After these two comparisons the authors provide a contextualized, more nuanced understanding of the archival objects of the G.H.F. Nuttall slide collection and its visual strategies.
representations of the extraordinary human body in West-Europe lantern history and lantern heritage between 1880
and 1930. To explain the at first sight unfamiliar image repertoire of this collection, the authors place the object, the
medium and the aesthetical representations in a historical and cultural frame and compare the material on two levels.
Firstly, the authors apply a cross-media visual analysis to describe several modes in which the extraordinary body is
represented (cartes de visite, early cinema) and secondly, they trace the appearance of extraordinary bodies in other
genres within the medium of lantern slides.
After these two comparisons the authors provide a contextualized, more nuanced understanding of the archival objects of the G.H.F. Nuttall slide collection and its visual strategies.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 61-79 |
Number of pages | 19 |
Journal | Fonseca, Journal of Communication |
Volume | 2018 |
Issue number | 16 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2018 |
Keywords
- lantern slides
- medical photography
- G.H.F. Nuttall (1863-1937)
- collection-based research
- early cinema