Books
Beatriz Pichel, Picturing the Western Front. Photography, Practices and Experiences in First World War France. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021.
Dolores Martin-Moruno and Beatriz Pichel (eds), Emotional Bodies. Historical Studies on the Performativity of Emotions. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2019.
Peer reviewed journal articles
“The Institutionalisation of Medical Photography, Public Funding and the Medical Reform in Parisian Hospitals (1878-1913)”, History of Photography, 48(1), 2025, 1–15. Open Access.
“Reading Photography in French Nineteenth-Century Journals”, Media History, 25 (19), 2018, 51-69. Open Access
“Les Gueules Cassés. Photography and the Making of Disfigurement”, Journal of War and Culture Studies, vol 10, issue 1, November 2017, 82-99.
“Cuerpos Patológicos. Fotografía y medicina en el siglo XIX”, Alcores, 19, 2017, 55-35.
“Die psychologie des lächelns bei Georges Dumas. Eine fotogeschichtliche Studie”, Fotogeschichte, 140, 36, 2016. Open Access. You can download the English version here: pichel-the-psychology-of-the-smile-fotogeschichte
“From Facial Expressions to Bodily Gestures. Passions, Photography and Movement in French 19thC sciences”, History of the Human Sciences, online first: Dec 2015. Feb 2016, vol 29(1), 27-48. Open Access. You can read more about this article in an interview in the History of the Human Sciences website
Selected book chapters
“Images – Teaching and Primary Images” in Courtney Thompson and Kylie Smith (eds) Do Less Harm. Ethics Of Health Historians. John Hopkins University Press, 2025, pp. 266-275.
“Photographic Sources in the History of Psychiatry”, in Chris Millard and Jennifer Wallis (eds), Sources in the History of Psychiatry, from 1800 to the Present, Routledge, 2022, pp. 30-49.
“Reading Photography in French Nineteenth-Century Periodicals” in Sally Frampton and Jennifer Wallis (eds), Reading the Nineteenth Century Medical Periodical (Abingdon: Routledge, 2021), pp. 51-69 (re-publication of the 2019 article)
“Photographing the Emotional Body. The Question of Expressions in the Theatre and the Psychological Sciences”, in Martín Moruno and Pichel (eds), Emotional Bodies. Studies on the Historical Performativity of Emotions, (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2019, 97-119.
“Introduction”, in Martín Moruno and Pichel (eds), Emotional Bodies. Studies on the Historical Performativity of Emotions, (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2019), 1-14, with Dolores Martín Moruno.
