Part 1, Side 1:

Abstract

Part one of five in a series of lectures with Allan Sekula on how the history of photography has been written. In his study of the emergence of mass media, Sekula deconstructs the bourgeois dominance of our photographic history. On this recording, he comments on the George Eastman House, Estelle Jussim, technological determinism, the invention of photography, Friedrich Schiller, Honoré Daumier, Immanuel Kant, Félix Nadar, Elizabeth Rigby (Lady Eastlake), individualism, William Henry Fox Talbot, Michel Foucault's study of Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon, Alphonse Bertillon, police photography, criminology, Cesare Lombroso, and the Crimean War.