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First edition. |
| Description |
xv, 198 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm. |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
Critical perspectives on disability |
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Critical perspectives on disability.
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ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Picturing disability -- Freak portraits: sideshow souvenirs -- Begging cards: solicitation with photographs -- Charity: the poster child and others -- Asylums: postcards, public relations, and muckraking -- Clinical photographs: "feeblemindedness" in eugenics texts / Martin Elks -- Advertising photographs: people with disabilities selling products -- Movie stills: monsters, revenge, and pity -- Art for art's sake: people with disabilities in art photography / James A. Knoll -- Citizen portraits: photos as personal keepsakes -- Conclusion: Just a beginning. |
| Summary |
"In Picturing Disability Bogdan and his collaborators gather over 200 historical photographs showing how people with disabilities have been presented and exploring the contexts in which they were photographed. Rather than focus on the subjects, Bogdan turns his gaze on the people behind the camera. He examines the historic and cultural environment of the photographs to decipher the relationship between the images and the perspectives of the picture makers. In analyzing the visual rhetoric of these photographs, Bogdan identifies the wide variety of genres, from sideshow souvenirs to clinical photographs. Ranging from the 1860s, when photographs first became readily available, to the 1970s, when the disability rights movement became a force for significant change, Bogdan chronicles the evolution of disability image creation. Picturing Disability takes the reader beyond judging images as positive or slanderous to reveal how particular contexts generate specific emotions and lasting depictions."--Jacket. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2022. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) |
| Note |
All rights reserved. |
| Subject |
People with disabilities -- Portraits.
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People with disabilities -- History.
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Sociology of disability.
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Social ecology.
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Freak shows -- History.
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Disabled Persons -- history |
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Social Environment |
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Personnes handicapées -- Portraits.
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Personnes handicapées -- Histoire.
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Handicap -- Aspect sociologique.
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Exhibitions de monstres -- Histoire.
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Écologie sociale.
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human ecology.
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People with disabilities. (OCoLC)fst01057245
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Sociology of disability. (OCoLC)fst01123936
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Fotografie
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Behinderter Mensch
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Anomalie
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People with disabilities -- Portraits.
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People with disabilities -- History.
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Sociology of disability.
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Personer med funktionsnedsättning -- historia.
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Photograph |
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photographs.
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Portraits. (OCoLC)fst01423831
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Photographs.
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Photographies.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Elks, Martin, author.
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Knoll, James A., author.
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American Council of Learned Societies.
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| Added Title |
ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/ |
| ISBN |
9780815633020 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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0815633025 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9780815651925 (ebook) |
| Standard No. |
40021651343 |
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2027/heb34604 hdl |
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