A Self-Portrait of Christ or the White Noise of Photography? Paul Vignon and the Earliest Photograph of the Shroud of Turin

Peter Geimer is Professor of Art History at the Freie Universität Berlin, where he is Codirector of the Center for Advanced Studies research group “BildEvidenz: Geschichte und Ästhetik.” His publications in English include “Image as Trace: Speculations about an Undead Paradigm,” Differences 18, no. 1 (Spring 2007); and “‘Self-Generated’ Images,” in Releasing the Image: From Literature to New Media, ed. Jacques Khalib and Robert Mitchell (Stanford University Press, 2011).