Picture imperfect
Subtitle: photography and eugenics 1870-1940
By: Anne Maxwell.
Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Brighton [England]; Portland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9781845192396
Subjects: Photography -- Social aspects -- History -- 19th century.; Photography -- Social aspects -- History -- 20th century.; Eugenics -- History -- 19th century.; Eugenics -- History -- 20th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-278) and index.
Table of contents: title: Racial-type photographs in the Colonial period; title: The degenerate face: nineteenth-century prison photographs; title: The eugenics movement begins : Galton and the races of Britain; title: Building a healthy nation : eugenic images in the United States, 1890-1935; title: Creating the master race: photography and the racial selection in Germany; title: Sub-human versus the master race: racial-type photographs and Nazi party propaganda; title: Eugenics under fire: the racial-type imagery of Boas, Du Bois, Huxley and Hadden.