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ushered science into le milieu intérieur of the body exactly at
the time when the poets did the same for the life of perception
and feeling.
It is important to note that this ultimate stage of
pictorialization was a reversal of pattern. The world of body
and mind observed by Baudelaire and Bernard was not
photographical at all, but a nonvisual set of relations such as
the physicist, for example, had encountered by means of the
new mathematics and statistics. The photograph might be
said, also, to have brought to human attention the subvisual
world of bacteria that caused Louis Pasteur to be driven from
the medical profession by his indignant colleagues. Just as the
painter Samuel Morse had unintentionally projected himself into
the nonvisual world of the telegraph, so the photograph really
transcends the pictorial by capturing the inner gestures and