Picture Imperfect: Photography and Eugenics, 1879-1940

by Anne Maxwell

Book Overview

Documents and critically analyses the photographs that helped strengthen as well as bring down the Eugenics Movement. 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, the author argues that photography, as the most powerful visual medium of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was vital to the Eugenics Movement's success...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845192397
• ISBN13: 9781845192396
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.7"