Picture Imperfect : Photography and Eugenics, 1879-1940 / Anne Maxwell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maxwell, Anne, 1919- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eugenics--History.

Eugenics.

Sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Eastbourne, IL : SUSSEX ACADEMIC PRESS, [2008]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Author's Preface

List of Plates

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

Part I Historical Context

2. Racial-type Photographs in the Colonial Period

3. The Degenerate Face: Nineteenth-Century Prison Photographs

Part II Emergence of Eugenic Photography

4. The Eugenics Movement Begins: Galton and the Races of Britain

5. Building a Healthy Nation: Eugenic Images in the United States, 1890-1935

6. Creating the Master Race: Photography and Racial Selection in Germany

7. Sub-Human Versus the Master Race: Racial-type Photographs and Nazi Party Propaganda

Part III Counter Images

8. Eugenics Under Fire: the Racial-type Imagery of Boas, Du Bois, Huxley and Hadden

9. Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-83764-208-7

OCLC:

1382694023