This essay assesses clinical photographs of leprosy patients created by the Hawai‘i Board of Health in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, or what may be the most extensive visual cataloging of indigenous, Asian, and immigrant bodies in America’s Pacific empire. Building on theoretical and methodological approaches to archives as a process rather than a source, I follow the trail of these clinical images through time and space, from their emergence within a photographic practice of medical management and segregation in Hawai‘i to their prolific circulation in transnational political and medical arenas. Offering spectacular evidence of the racialized and sexualized pathology of colonial peoples, these photographs were tightly regulated but increasingly viewed as clinical erotica after the United States incorporated Hawai‘i as a territory in 1900. The essay further suggests the “affective excess” that can disrupt the photograph’s medical surveillance, as social intimacies and care between Hawaiian patients bloom within the frame.

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本文评估了夏威夷卫生委员会在19世纪末至20世纪初创建的麻风病患者的临床照片，或者可能是美国太平洋帝国中最广泛的土著，亚洲和移民尸体的视觉分类。我建立在理论和方法论方法基础上，将档案作为一个过程而不是一个来源，从时间和空间上追踪这些临床图像的踪迹，从它们出现在医学管理和隔离的摄影实践中到在夏威夷的大量传播。跨国政治和医学领域。提供了殖民人民种族化和性化病理的壮观证据，