Picture Imperfect: Photography and Eugenics, 1879-1940 - Anne Maxwell - Books - Sussex Academic Press - 9781845192396 - January 31, 2008
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Picture Imperfect: Photography and Eugenics, 1879-1940


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Analyses the photographs that helped strengthen as well as bring down the Eugenics Movement. Concentrating mainly on developments in Britain, the USA and Nazi Germany, this book 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.


286 pages, 120 b/w photos

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released January 31, 2008
ISBN13 9781845192396
Publishers Sussex Academic Press
Pages 286
Dimensions 175 × 252 × 22 mm   ·   680 g

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