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Title:Thermal optimum: time, intimacy and the elemental in the first thousand days of life
Authors:Ross, Fiona C.ISNI
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]
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