Permission granted by Elsevier. 9 While medical photography could be understood as a genre in which photographs are concerned with the wide range of medical phenomena, ranging from medical practice, to epidemiological mappings, anthropological inquiries and to portraits of institutions and hospitals, the clinical photograph was and is focused on the portrayal of symptoms comparable to the clinician's gaze at the bedside. To some extent clinical photography is solely concerned with the depiction and definition of diseases.