Race and photography : racial photography as scientific evidence, 1876-1980 / Amos Morris-Reich.

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.

xiv, 280 pages : black and white illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The type and the gaze: racial photography as scientific evidence, 1876-1918 -- Racial photographs from icons to schemes: the "case" of Central and Eastern European Jews, 1880-1927 -- Serialization as construction of meaning: the photographic practice of Hans F.K. Günther in context -- Racial photographs as "thought experiments": the photographic method of Ludwig Ferdinand Clauß -- Racial photography in Palestine.