Techniques of vision: photography practices and the governing of subjectivities

This thesis explores how photography has been used in the governing of subjectivities and draws on the following three forms of governmentality identified by Michel Foucault: biopower, discipline and ethics. In photography's early history discourses on character and insanity privileged visual...

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Main Author: Lewis, Goldwyn
Other Authors: Heir, Sean P.
Language:English
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Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1828/1990