Browsing by Author "Pichel, Beatriz"

Broken faces: reconstructive surgery during and after the Great War

Cuerpos patológicos. Fotografía y medicina en el siglo XIX

This article examines different approaches to nineteenth-century medical photography. It argues that we should go beyond the visual analysis to examine the material conditions in which photographs were taken and reproduced. ...

Death that Matters. Bodies and Masculinity in French Photography During the First World War

Pichel, Beatriz (Book chapter)

Die psychologie des lächelns bei Georges Dumas. Eine fotogeschiliche studie

Pichel, Beatriz (Article)

French Resentment and the Animalization of the Germans During the First World War (1914-1918)

Pichel, Beatriz (Book chapter)

From Facial Expressions to Bodily Gestures. Passions, Photography and Movement in French 19th century Sciences

Pichel, Beatriz (Article)

This article aims to determine to what extent photographic practices in psychology, psychiatry and physiology contributed to the definition of the external bodily signs of passions and emotions in the second half of the ...

Illness and image. Case studies in the medical humanities by Sander L. Gilman

Pichel, Beatriz (Article)

De la SPA a los fotógrafos amateur. La cámara como instrumento de apropriación de la guerra

Pichel, Beatriz (Conference)

The Great War led to political, social and technological transformations that affected the development of late conflicts in Europe. But not all transformations were related to weaponry. This paper will examine the impact ...

Les Gueules Cases. Photography and the Making of Disfigurement

Pichel, Beatriz (Article)

Between 1914 and 1918, French visual culture was saturated with photographs of amputees: ex-combatants who had lost an arm or a leg, and had substituted them for prosthetic devices. However, these pictures were all about ...

Making Sense of Verdun. Photography and Emotions During the First World War

Pichel, Beatriz (Book chapter)

On Honeymoon Along the Western Front. Photography and Trauma After the First World War

Pichel, Beatriz (Book chapter)

Photographing the Emotional Body. Performing Expressions in the Theatre and the Psychological Sciences

Pichel, Beatriz (Book chapter)

This chapter examines the medical, chronophotographic and theatrical photographs taken in the 1890s by Albert Londe, Head of the Photographic Service at the Parisian hospital La Salpêtrière. Situating Londe’s production ...

Reading Photography in French Nineteenth-Century Journals

Pichel, Beatriz (Article)

This article explores how photographs published in the French medical and, to some extent, the popular press helped readers to interpret expressions and gestures as signs of emotional states, morbid conditions and physiological ...