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Morris-Reich, Amos,

Race and photography : racial photography as scientific evidence, 1876-1980 / Amos Morris-Reich. - Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource : illustrations

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.



ISBN: 9780226320915

Subjects--Personal Names:
Günther, Hans F. K., 1891-1968.
Clauss, Ludwig Ferdinand, 1892-1974.
Günther, Hans F. K., 1891-1968
Clauss, Ludwig Ferdinand, 1892-1974

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Photography in ethnology--History.
Photography--Scientific applications--History.
Photography in ethnology--History.--Europe
Photography--Scientific applications--History.--Europe
Photography in ethnology--History.--Palestine
Jews--Identity.--Europe, Eastern
Jews--Identity.--Europe, Central
Germans--Race identity.
Photography--history
Ethnology--history
Jews--classification
Racism--history
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic Books.

LC Class. No.: GN347 / .R334 2016