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Photography theory

the nineteenth-century belief, traced by Sekula, that the camera served as a neutral tool for recording and classifying bodies for police and science.

In photography theory, instrumental realism refers to the nineteenth-century belief, traced by Sekula, that the camera served as a neutral tool for recording and classifying bodies for police and science. This meaning comes from Sekula (1986) in October.[1]

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Sekula, A. (1986). The Body and the Archive. October, 39, 3. https://doi.org/10.2307/778312

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