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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Main Author: Stier, Oren Baruch (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2010
In: 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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