“Race and Popular Darwinism in Nineteenth-Century Photography,” by Elizabeth Edwards, 2009 CE.
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Prof. Elizabeth Edwards discusses how ‘racial type photographs’ shaped Victorian scientists including Darwin, and subsequently influenced the popular reception of Darwin’s ideas; accompanying video includes images of such photographs.
From “Darwin: Endless Forms,” the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge University, at www.darwinendlessforms.org
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