Picture Imperfect: Photography and Eugenics, 1870–1940, Anne Maxwell (Brighton, UK: Sussex Academic Press, 2008), 286 pp., cloth 79.50, pbk. 45.00
In this detailed study, Anne Maxwell provides a unique perspective on visual culture and its relationship to racism. Rather than focus on racialist writings and theories that influenced the eugenics movement, she concentrates on how the movement was “presented to the public and what techniques were...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2010
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 24, Issue: 3, Pages: 476-479 |
| Review of: | Picture imperfect (Brighton [u.a.] : Sussex Acad. Press, 2008) (Stier, Oren Baruch)
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| Summary: | In this detailed study, Anne Maxwell provides a unique perspective on visual culture and its relationship to racism. Rather than focus on racialist writings and theories that influenced the eugenics movement, she concentrates on how the movement was “presented to the public and what techniques were used to ensure that the race theories promulgated by its scientists came to meet with wide acceptance” (p. vii). In order to make her task more manageable, Maxwell focuses solely on photography's role in supporting both “positive” and “negative” eugenics within the Social Darwinist camp—respectively, “encouraging those of good heredity to breed” and “preventing those of inferior heredity from reproducing” (p. 1). |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcq061 |