Picture Imperfect : Photography and Eugenics, 1870-1940.

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 v...

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Autor principal: Maxwell, Anne
Format: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Eastbourne : Sussex Academic Press, 2010.
Accés en línia:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.4116440
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Sumari: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.
Descripció de l’ítem:Description based upon print version of record.
Descripció física:1 online resource (305 p.)
ISBN:9781837642083
1837642087
9781845194154