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Title: | Thermal optimum: time, intimacy and the elemental in the first thousand days of life |
Authors: | Ross, Fiona C. Eppel, Nicholas |
Year: | 2016 |
Periodical: | Anthropology Southern Africa (ISSN 2332-3264) |
Volume: | 39 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 64-73 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | infants pregnancy mothers pictorial works (form) |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1080/23323256.2016.1153976 |
Abstract: | 'Thermal Optimum' is a collaboration between photographer Nicholas Eppel and anthropologist Fiona C. Ross. Focusing on pregnancy and early childhood, they sought a way to open questions about how the 'hard facts' of biology are given force and presence through 'soft' actions of care. Thermographic imaging, initially developed for military use, allows one to trace a subject's 'heat signature', making visible aspects of the world that are ordinarily undetectable to the human eye. The resultant images disrupt visual expectations and accustomed modes of interpretation. An experiment in seeing, they are interested in thinking about what these kinds of images enable and unseat for them, an artist and an anthropologist. Bibliogr., notes, sum. [Journal abstract] |