Picture imperfect : photography and eugenics 1870-1940
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Copy number Shelfmark Shelf mark R013703 Ned. Fotomuseum $T MAXWELL.A 2008
TitlePicture imperfect : photography and eugenics 1870-1940
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Place of publicationBrighton, Portland, Or.
PublisherSussex Academic Press
Year of publication2008
Paginationxvi, 286 p.
Illustrationsb&w
Dimensions26 x18 cm.
MaterialTekstboek
Document TypeBook
ISBN97818451923961845192397
External document
Bibliographic Noteshc; Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-278) and index.
SubjectEtnocentrisme en fotografie, Nazisme en fotografie, Representatie en fotografie, Representatie van gekleurde mensen, Maatschappij en fotografie, Eugenetica en fotografie
Abstract
Contents : / Racial-type photographs in the Colonial period -- The degenerate face: nineteenth-century prison photographs -- The eugenics movement begins : Galton and the races of Britain -- Building a healthy nation : eugenic images in the United States, 1890-1935 -- Creating the master race: photography and the racial selection in Germany --Sub-human versus the master race: racial-type photographs and Nazi party propaganda -- Eugenics under fire: the racial-type imagery of Boas, Du Bois, Huxley and Hadden.
| Copy number | R013703 |
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| Shelf mark | $T MAXWELL.A 2008 |