Bu Hua "Savage Growth" animation

an allegorical animation about development, nationalism, competition...

13 ways of looking at a blackbird

"If perceptions truly had no content whatsoever
they would be blank moments in consciousness and would leave no trace in memory. At one
level, formal configurations function as ontological propositions. Merely by shaping energy one
models the real; every grasping or shaping is a rhetorical persuasion for a view of reality." (from #11, Formal Perceptions)

Lewis Hine

Sir Francis Galton

Composite "jewish type" circa 1880s.
Physiognomy and Phrenology- composited portraits.
Dalton was a cousin of Darwin and a mathematician, statistician and anthropologist. Developed way to classify fingerprints, terms "nature v. nurture" and "eugenics" he was interested in the question of what was inheritable.

Plus an artist project.

Artist Keith Deitrich CIRCA 2004

Edweard Muybridge

http://paulrobert.acadnet.ca/archive/fall2008/drwf/images/narrative/muybridge02.jpg

Visible Proofs: Forensic Views of the Body

An exhibition by the National Institutes of Health

Bertillon's portrait studio

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/visibleproofs/media/detailed/ii_c_304.jpg

The Photographic INdex

Photography used for the identification, tracking, Bertillon: Filing systems



http://www.nlm.nih.gov/visibleproofs/media/detailed/ii_c_304.jpg

http://students.washington.edu/karamck/images/sekula/sekula_1.jpg




A SHORT VISUAL HISTORY OF THE USE OF PHOTOGRAPHY FOR IDENTIFICATION AND CLASSIFICATION PURPOSES
VISIBLE FORENSICS

Jean Painleve Film: The Sea Horse

Kehinde Wiley

Portraits by Kehinde Wiley. More about his work HERE