Picture Imperfect

"This book makes a significant contribution to an underexamined and important topic. Eugenics had an immense (mainly negative) impact on twentieth-century social and political history, and as Anne Maxwell demonstrates this was in large part because of its use of modern visual technologies, particularly photography. This story should not be allowed to disappear from cultural memory and Anne Maxwell's careful and path-breaking scholarship will do much to keep it there:'"-Simon During, Johns Hopkins University --