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Race and photography : racial photography as scientific evidence, 1876-1980 / Amos Morris-Reich.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780226320915
  • 022632091X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Race and photographyDDC classification:
  • 305.80022/2 23
LOC classification:
  • GN347 .M67 2016eb
NLM classification:
  • 2016 I-211
  • GN 347
Other classification:
  • LB 31960
  • LC 95000
Online resources:
Contents:
The type and the gaze: racial photography as scientific evidence, 1876 -- 1918 -- Racial photographs from icons to schemes: the "case" of Central and Eastern European Jews, 1880 -- 1927 -- Serialization as construction of meaning: the photographic practice of Hans F.K. Günther in context -- Racial photographs as "thought experiments": the photographic method of Ludwig Ferdinand Clauss -- Racial photography in Palestine.
In: University Press Scholarship Online Complete CollectionSummary: 'Race and Photography' studies the changing function of photography from the 1870s to the 1940s within the field of the 'science of race', what many today consider the paradigm of pseudo-science. Amos Morris-Reich looks at the ways photography enabled not just new forms of documentation but new forms of perception.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The type and the gaze: racial photography as scientific evidence, 1876 -- 1918 -- Racial photographs from icons to schemes: the "case" of Central and Eastern European Jews, 1880 -- 1927 -- Serialization as construction of meaning: the photographic practice of Hans F.K. Günther in context -- Racial photographs as "thought experiments": the photographic method of Ludwig Ferdinand Clauss -- Racial photography in Palestine.

Print version record.

'Race and Photography' studies the changing function of photography from the 1870s to the 1940s within the field of the 'science of race', what many today consider the paradigm of pseudo-science. Amos Morris-Reich looks at the ways photography enabled not just new forms of documentation but new forms of perception.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 651

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