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14. Evolving Images: Race and Popular Darwinism in Nineteenth-Century Photography

14. Evolving Images: Race and Popular Darwinism in Nineteenth-Century Photography

Update: 2009-08-03
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Professor Elizabeth Edwards explores how the emerging mass medium of photography engaged with popular Darwinian ideas in the nineteenth century, and how notions of race, 'type' and 'hard science' collided with troubling results.
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14. Evolving Images: Race and Popular Darwinism in Nineteenth-Century Photography

14. Evolving Images: Race and Popular Darwinism in Nineteenth-Century Photography

University of Cambridge