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Picturing disability : beggar, freak, citizen, and other photographic rhetoric / Robert Bogdan, with Martin Elks and James A. Knoll.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bogdan, Robert, author.
- Elks, Martin, author.
- Knoll, James A., author.
- Series:
- Critical perspectives on disability
- ACLS Humanities E-Book.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- People with disabilities--Portraits.
- People with disabilities.
- People with disabilities--History.
- Sociology of disability.
- Social ecology.
- Freak shows--History.
- Freak shows.
- Disabled Persons--history.
- Social Environment.
- human ecology.
- Medical Subjects:
- Disabled Persons--history.
- Social Environment.
- Genre:
- photographs.
- History.
- Portraits.
- Photographs.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 198 pages) : illustrations, portraits.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- "In Picturing Disability Bogdan and his collaborators gather over 200 historical photographs showing how people with disabilities have been presented and exploring the contexts in which they were photographed. Rather than focus on the subjects, Bogdan turns his gaze on the people behind the camera. He examines the historic and cultural environment of the photographs to decipher the relationship between the images and the perspectives of the picture makers. In analyzing the visual rhetoric of these photographs, Bogdan identifies the wide variety of genres, from sideshow souvenirs to clinical photographs. Ranging from the 1860s, when photographs first became readily available, to the 1970s, when the disability rights movement became a force for significant change, Bogdan chronicles the evolution of disability image creation. Picturing Disability takes the reader beyond judging images as positive or slanderous to reveal how particular contexts generate specific emotions and lasting depictions."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Picturing disability
- Freak portraits: sideshow souvenirs
- Begging cards: solicitation with photographs
- Charity: the poster child and others
- Asylums: postcards, public relations, and muckraking
- Clinical photographs: "feeblemindedness" in eugenics texts / Martin Elks
- Advertising photographs: people with disabilities selling products
- Movie stills: monsters, revenge, and pity
- Art for art's sake: people with disabilities in art photography / James A. Knoll
- Citizen portraits: photos as personal keepsakes
- Conclusion: Just a beginning.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2022. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])
- ISBN:
- 9780815651925
- Publisher Number:
- 40021651343
- 2027/heb34604 hdl
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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