Picturing Disability: Beggar, Freak, Citizen, and Other Photographic Rhetoric
- ISBN-10
- 0815633025
- ISBN-13
- 9780815633020
- Category
- Photography
- Pages
- 198
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Author
- Robert Bogdan
Description
Midget, feeble-minded, crippled, lame, and insane: these terms and the historical photographs that accompany them may seem shocking to present-day audiences. In this book, Bogdan and his collaborators gather over 200 historical photographs showing how people with disabilities have been presented over the years.
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- 2012-11-19
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