(T)races of Louis Agassiz
Subtitle: photography, body and science, yesterday and today = rastros e raças de Louis Agassiz : fotografía, corpo e ciencia, ontem e hoje
By: Maria Helena P.T. Machado & Sasha Huber
Contributors: Huber, Sasha; Bienal de Artes de São Paulo (29th : 2010) : São Paulo, Brazil)
Publisher: [Capacete]
Published: 2010
Place of publication: São Paulo]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9788563537027
Subjects: Portrait photography; Porträttfotografi; Photography; Social aspects; Photography in anthropology; Sociala aspekter; Thayer Expedition (1865-1866); Political aspects; Fotografi; Fotografi inom antropologin
Other titles: Traces of Louis Agassiz; Races of Louis Agassiz; Rastros e raças de Louis Agassiz :
Description: Presents in an original way part of the Louis Agassiz's Brazilian photographic collection. Created in Rio de Janeiro and Manaus during the Thayer Expedition in 1865-1866. The book gathers artists, curators, photographic historians, anti-racist activists, in examining a series of 19th century racial photographs. This book reflects upon how images associated to thoroughly outdated beliefs and scientific knowledge continue to haunt not only visual culture but also the politics of memory.
Notes: "Published by Capacete Entretenimentos on the occasion of the 29th São Paulo Biennial, 2010"--Page 189.

Includes bibliographical references.

In English and Portuguese.
Table of contents: title: Traces of Agassiz on Brazilian races : the formation of a photographic collection / Maria Helena P.T. Machado; title: Agassiz and the "pure race" Africans in the city on the Atlantic / Flávio dos Santos Gomes; title: Mr. Hunnewell's black hands / John M. Monteiro; title: Louis Agassiz photographic collections. Pure race series, Africa album ; Mixed race series ; Exhibition of Sarah Huber; title: Louis who? : what you should know about Louis Agassiz / Sasha Huber & Petri Saarikko; title: What's in a name? : Louis Agassiz, his mountain and the politics of remembrance / Hans Fässler; title: Places named after Louis Agassiz; title: Questioning Louis Agassiz's repository of racist imagery in Sasha Huber's work / Suzana Milevska.