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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