Eugenics, 'Aristogenics', Photography: Picturing Privilege

By Kris Belden-Adams

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367562685
• ISBN13: 9780367562687
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages