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@article{ART002205120},
author={Seung-Chol Shin},
title={The Trace of the Mind? The Cultural History of Thought Photography},
journal={The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art},
issn={1229-0246},
year={2017},
volume={50},
pages={3-44},
doi={10.17527/JASA.50.0.01}

TY - JOUR
AU - Seung-Chol Shin
TI - The Trace of the Mind? The Cultural History of Thought Photography
JO - The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art
PY - 2017
VL - 50
IS - null
PB - 한국미학예술학회
SP - 3
EP - 44
SN - 1229-0246
AB - This paper critically examines the cultural meaning of thought photography. Thought photography was invented by the scientific and mystic experiment that was inspired by the Roentgen Rays. In the new optical regime, in which the human eyes were substituted by the materialized sight, it was believed that the mind could be visualized on the exposed film to the ray of thought. This photochemical experiment was widely conducted to get a photographic record of the image of mind, and the image was considered as the objective inscription media. The belief in the visualization of mind was justified by the photographic act and belongs to the realm of science in the indices paradigm. In this context the reading of mind became an image problem. Although the iconographisation of mind was de facto the result of a misinterpretation, the belief that the image could visualizes the invisible exerts cultural influences. It controlled the scientific experiment, and maintained the epistemic position of image. By visualizing the invisible, the image produces knowledge and discours about it. This competence was critically verified in the thought photography.
KW - brain mirror;Louis Darget;Roentgen ray;mesmerism;photographic act;psychoicone;fluid photography;Hippolyte Baraduc;Jules-Bernard Luys;index;parascience
DO - 10.17527/JASA.50.0.01
ER -

Seung-Chol Shin. (2017). The Trace of the Mind? The Cultural History of Thought Photography. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, 50, 3-44.

Seung-Chol Shin. 2017, "The Trace of the Mind? The Cultural History of Thought Photography", The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, vol.50, pp.3-44. Available from: doi:10.17527/JASA.50.0.01

Seung-Chol Shin "The Trace of the Mind? The Cultural History of Thought Photography" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 50 pp.3-44 (2017) : 3.

Seung-Chol Shin. The Trace of the Mind? The Cultural History of Thought Photography. 2017; 50 3-44. Available from: doi:10.17527/JASA.50.0.01

Seung-Chol Shin. "The Trace of the Mind? The Cultural History of Thought Photography" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 50(2017) : 3-44.doi: 10.17527/JASA.50.0.01

Seung-Chol Shin. The Trace of the Mind? The Cultural History of Thought Photography. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, 50, 3-44. doi: 10.17527/JASA.50.0.01

Seung-Chol Shin. The Trace of the Mind? The Cultural History of Thought Photography. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art. 2017; 50 3-44. doi: 10.17527/JASA.50.0.01

Seung-Chol Shin. The Trace of the Mind? The Cultural History of Thought Photography. 2017; 50 3-44. Available from: doi:10.17527/JASA.50.0.01

Seung-Chol Shin. "The Trace of the Mind? The Cultural History of Thought Photography" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 50(2017) : 3-44.doi: 10.17527/JASA.50.0.01