Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 17:18:46 +0730
From: a.j.thomas-AT-latrobe.edu.au (Allan James Thomas)
Subject: Re: x-rays and films


>I've just run across a reference for a book called *media Fantasies and
>Penetrating Vision: Some Links between X-rays, the microscope, and film.*
>I've ordered it, but am curious to know in the meantime what the basic
>argument/s are about the connections between x-rays and cinema. Have any
>of you read it?  I'd really like to have a discussion about this. . .
>
>
>Nancy West


Haven't read it, but there's an article you might be interested in called
'Radiography, Cinematography and the Decline of the lens' by Lisa
Cartwright & Brian Goldfarb in Zone 6: Incorporations, ed Jonathon Crary &
Sanford Kwinter, NY: Zone 1992.  It charts connections between Louis
Lumiere's late (1920's) work on volumatic representation in still
photography and various body imaging techniques (x-rays, CT scans,
ultrasound), opposing a lenticular, persepectivaly based system of visual
representation  (aligned with vision as an Enlightenment metaphor for
knowledge) to one which articulates a non-perspectival representation of an
abstract, non-visible property of a body, that of volume (and this is
aligned with  the modernist idiom of seeingaround, presumably embodied in
modes of visual reprentation like analytical cubism). Haven't really read
it in depth, but it might be interesting/relevant for your work.

Allan




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