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Picture Imperfect: Photography and Eugenics, 1870-1940
Anne Maxwell
Picture Imperfect: Photography and Eugenics, 1870-1940
Anne Maxwell
Using a large body of racial-type images and a variety of historical and archival sources, and concentrating mainly on developments in Britain, the USA and Nazi Germany, this book explains how photography, as the most powerful visual medium of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was vital to the eugenics movement's success.
286 pages, b/w photos
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | March 11, 2010 |
ISBN13 | 9781845194154 |
Publishers | Sussex Academic Press |
Pages | 286 |
Dimensions | 170 × 245 × 17 mm · 544 g |