Probing Pictures: Carol Armstrong on Georges Didi-Huberman.(Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpetriere)(Book Review)

Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpetriere, by Georges Didi-Huberman, trans. Alisa Hartz. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 385 pages. $35.

Two questions had been put to me as I set about reading Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpetriere in translation. (It was published in French twenty-one years ago.) Why did it take so long for Georges Didi-Huberman's book to appear in English? And why had it not been more important to the relatively new discipline of the history of photography in its Anglo-American ...

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