In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the humanities and cultural sciences regarding questions of imagery, representation, and visualization. The individual contributions of this volume discuss the debates surrounding the photographic conquest of visibility, using examples from medicine, physics, anthropology, spiritualism, jurisprudence, literature, and the visual arts. By discussing the artistic, scientific, and social aspects of photography in a comparative overview for the first time, this volume opens up perspectives on a new science of the image.