Picturing disability : beggar, freak, citizen, and other photographic rhetoric / Robert Bogdan, with Martin Elks and James A. Knoll
- Author
- Bogdan, Robert
- Published
- Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2012.
- Copyright Date
- ©2012
- Edition
- First edition.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xv, 198 pages) : illustrations
- Additional Creators
- Elks, Martin and Knoll, James
Access Online
- Series
- Language Note
- English.
- 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
- For this book, the authors studied thousands of historical photographs of people with disabilities. Their work shows how people with disabilities have been presented - but in a much wider range than seen previously.
- Subject(s)
- People with disabilities—Portraits
- People with disabilities—History
- Sociology of disability
- Social ecology
- Disabled Persons—history
- Social Environment
- Personnes handicapées—Portraits
- Personnes handicapées—Histoire
- Handicap—Aspect sociologique
- Écologie sociale
- Human ecology
- SOCIAL SCIENCE—Discrimination & Race Relations
- SOCIAL SCIENCE—People with Disabilities
- SOCIAL SCIENCE—Minority Studies
- People with disabilities
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9780815651925 (electronic bk.)
0815651929 (electronic bk.)
9780815633020 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0815633025 (cloth ; alk. paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-185) and index.
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