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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, (c)2016.Description: 1 online resource : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780226320915
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • GN347 .R334 2016
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Contents:
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.
Summary: '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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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction GN347 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocn930602627

Includes bibliographies 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.

'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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