Visual Plague: The Emergence of Epidemic Photography

by Christos Lynteris

How epidemic photography during a global pandemic of bubonic plague contributed to the development of modern epidemiology and our concept of the "pandemic." In Visual Plague , Christos Lynteris examines the emergence of epidemic photography during the third plague pandemic (1894-1959), a global pandemic of bubonic plague that led to over twelve million deaths. Unlike medical photography, epidemic photography was not exclusively, or even primarily,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262544229
• ISBN13: 9780262544221
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"