Hussey explained in his fascinating study of The Picturesque . 
More than a century of this pictorial analysis of the inner life 
preceded Talbot’s 1839 discovery of photography. 
Photography, by carrying the pictorial delineation of natural 
objects much further than paint or language could do, had a 
reverse  effect. By conferring a means of self-delineation of 
objects, of “statement without syntax,” photography gave the 
impetus to a delineation of the inner world. Statement without 
syntax or verbalization was really statement by gesture, by 
mime, and by gestalt . This new dimension opened for human 
inspection by poets like Baudelaire and Rimbaud le paysage  
intérieur , or the countries of the mind. Poets and painters 
invaded this inner landscape world long before Freud and Jung 
brought their cameras and notebooks to capture states of 
mind. Perhaps most spectacular of all was Claude Bernard, 
whose Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine