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Eugenics, 'Aristogenics', Photography: Picturing Privilege

Eugenics, 'Aristogenics', Photography: Picturing Privilege

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ISBN10: 0367562685
ISBN13: 9780367562687
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 29 2024
Pages: 256
Language: English

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.

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