Diamond’s project started when photography was invented and emerging in 1856. ‘What was remarkable in Diamond’s work – for it was not unique, but typified a whole tendency in nineteenth century photographic practice – was its constitution at the point where discourses of psychiatry, physiognomy, photographic science and aesthetics coincided and overlapped. But the site where they could work together and on each other was a regulated space, a political space, a space in the new institutional order. Here, the knowledge and truth of which photography became the guardian were inseparable from the power in which they engendered.‘ Also from John Tagg: ‘..an ever more intimate observation and an ever more subtle control; an ever more passive subjection and an ever more dominant benevolent gaze’.
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