[( Picture Imperfect: Photography & Eugenics, 1870-1940 )] [by: Anne Maxwell] [Apr-2010]
Picture Imperfect Using a large body of racial-type images and a variety of historical and archival sources, and concentrating mainly on developments in Britain, the USA and Nazi Germany, this book explains how photography, as the most powerful visual medium of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was vital to the eugenics movement"s success. Full description