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Author Morris-Reich, Amos, author.

Title Race and photography : racial photography as scientific evidence, 1876-1980 / Amos Morris-Reich
Published Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016
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Contents 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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
In University Press Scholarship Online Complete Collection Oxford University Press
Subject Günther, Hans F. K., 1891-1968.
Clauss, Ludwig Ferdinand, 1892-1974.
SUBJECT Günther, Hans F. K., 1891-1968
Clauss, Ludwig Ferdinand, 1892-1974
Clauss, Ludwig Ferdinand, 1892-1974 fast
Günther, Hans F. K., 1891-1968 fast
Günther, Hans F. K. 1891-1968 gnd
Clauss, Ludwig Ferdinand 1892-1974 gnd
BMBF-Statusseminar gnd
Subject Photography in ethnology -- History
Photography -- Scientific applications -- History
Photography in ethnology -- Europe -- History
Photography -- Scientific applications -- Europe -- History
Photography in ethnology -- Palestine -- History
Jews -- Europe, Eastern -- Identity
Jews -- Europe, Central -- Identity
Germans -- Race identity
Photography -- history
Ethnology -- history
Jews -- classification
Racism -- history
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Jews -- Identity
Photography in ethnology
Photography -- Scientific applications
Ethnologische Fotografie
Rassentheorie
SUBJECT Europe. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045631
Middle East. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090501
Europe
Israel
Middle East
Subject Middle East
Europe
Central Europe
Eastern Europe
Middle East -- Palestine
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780226320915
022632091X