A Picture of Health: The Search for a Genre to Visualize Care in Late Ottoman Istanbul

Zeynep Devrim Gürsel is a media anthropologist and Associate Professor in the Department of International Studies at Macalester College. She is author of Image Brokers: Visualizing World News in the Age of Digital Circulation (University of California Press, 2016). Her contribution forms part of a research project titled “Imaging an Empire: Photography as a Tool of Governmentality in the Late Ottoman Period.”