Thinking with X-rays: Investigating the Politics of Visibility through the Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid's Photography Collection

This article interrogates the relationship between sovereignty and image production by exploring the photographic collection of the Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid (ruled 1876-1909). It specifically rethinks depictions of political events through the example of x-ray photographs, focusing on albums contai...

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Published in:Visual anthropology (Journal) 2016-05, Vol.29 (3), p.229-242
Main Author: Gursel, Zeynep Devrim
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Armed forces
Collections
Ottoman Empire
Sovereignty
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Summary:This article interrogates the relationship between sovereignty and image production by exploring the photographic collection of the Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid (ruled 1876-1909). It specifically rethinks depictions of political events through the example of x-ray photographs, focusing on albums containing x-rays of wounds sustained by Ottoman soldiers in the Greco-Turkish war of 1897.
ISSN:0894-9468
1545-5920
DOI:10.1080/08949468.2016.1154416