This special issue includes investigations of scientific, medical, archaeological, anthropological, psychiatric, and art-historical images from the second half of the nineteenth and the early years of the twentieth century. The visual material under discussion was all produced with 'documentary' intention. The scope of the project is interdisciplinary, and discussions will centre on the impact of such images upon the visual imaginations (collective and singular) of the time. How did the styles of visual thinking interface with the principles of psychoanalysis and related disciplines? In an overarching way, we shall enquire as to how visual documentation shaped and reflected the intellectual climate of turn-of-the-century Vienna in the sciences and humanities.

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