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...
Main Author: | |
---|---|
Format: | Electronic Review |
Language: | English |
Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
Journals Online & Print: | |
Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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)
|
Further subjects: | B
Book review
|
Online Access: |
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |