(French) Identities IDENTITES, DE DISDERI AT PHOTOMATON

This book by French historian and photography critic Michel Frisot provides a historical interpretation of the relationship between photography and identity.
Through numerous illustrations ranging from daguerreotype portraits to visiting card photographs, anthropometric photographs, passport photographs, and modern speed cameras, the exhibition asks, "How has photography come to define the individual?"
This book, part of the PHOTO COPIES series, was published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by the French National Center for Photography at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris in 1985-86. It sheds light on the history of photography as a tool for self-recognition, recognition of others, and even control. In particular, Alphonse Bertillon's anthropometric photographs of criminals and the typological portraits associated with colonialism fundamentally question the neutrality of photography. This thought-provoking book can be read from the perspectives of both the history of photography and the history of thought.

[Title] IDENTITES, DE DISDERI AU PHOTOMATON (From Disdéri to Photomaton - Identities)
[Publisher] Éditions Photo Copies
[Date of publication] 1985
[Number of pages] 141 pages
[Size] Approx. 280*260mm, 855g
[Format] Softcover
[Language] French
[Title Reading] Idantite do disdeli o fotomaton
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[ISBN] 9782851084347
[Condition] Used [5] Average (slight scratches on corners, slight stains on top)
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