| Eugenics, 'Aristogenics', Photography: Picturing Privilege Contributor(s): Belden-Adams, Kris (Author) |
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ISBN: 1350132357 ISBN-13: 9781350132351 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $133.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Photography | History - Photography | Subjects & Themes - Historical - Art | Subjects & Themes - Portraits |
| Dewey: 778.993 |
| LCCN: 2019049173 |
| Physical Information: 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is the first study to explore the connections between late-19th-century university/college composite class portraits and the field of eugenics - which first took hold in the United States at Harvard University. Eugenics, "Aristogenics," Photography takes a closer look at how composite portraiture documented an idealized "reality" of the New England social-caste experience and explains how, when positioned in relation to the individual stories and portraits of members of the class, the portraits reveal points of non-conformity and rebellion with their own rhetoric. |