Ghost in the Shell: Photography and the Human Soul, 1850-2000

  • Robert A. Sobieszek

Pupil: Pose 1, by Katherine Wetzel and Elizabeth King, is one of many images to be found in Ghost in the Shell: Photography and the Human Soul, 1850–2000 (Los Angeles County Museum of Art/MIT Press, $59.95, £37.50) by Robert A. Sobieszek. The book traces the history of photographic portraiture, and analyses the premise that the human face expresses the essence of the human character.