Race and Photography (Paperback)

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. Foregoing the political lens through which we usually look back at race science, he holds it up instead within the light of the history of science, using it to explore how science is defined; how evidence is produced, used, and interpreted; and how science shapes the imagination and vice versa. Exploring the development of racial photography wherever it took place, including countries like France and England, Morris-Reich pays special attention to the German and Jewish contexts of scientific racism. Through careful reconstruction of individual cases, conceptual genealogies, and patterns of practice, he compares the intended roles of photography with its actual use in scientific argumentation. He examines the diverse ways it was used to establish racial ideologies-as illustrations of types, statistical data, or as self-evident record of racial signs. Altogether, Morris-Reich visits this troubling history to outline important truths about the roles of visual argumentation, imagination, perception, aesthetics, epistemology, and ideology within scientific study.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2016
Authors:	Amos Morris-Reich
Dimensions:	155 x 228 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-32088-5
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General Books > History > European history > General
LSN:	0-226-32088-X
Barcode:	9780226320885

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