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by Robert Bogdan

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Midget, feeble-minded, crippled, lame, and insane: these terms and the historical photographs that accompany them may seem shocking to present-day audiences. A young woman with no arms wears a sequined tutu and smiles for the camera as she smokes a cigarette with her toes; a man holds up two prosthetic legs while his own legs are bared to the knees to show his missing feet. The photos were used as promotional material for circus sideshows, charity drives, and art galleries. They were found on begging cards and in family albums. In Picturing Disability, Bogdan and his collaborators gather over 200 historical photographs showing how people with disabilities have been presented and exploring the contexts in which they were photographed.

Rather than focus on the subjects, Bogdan turns his gaze on the people behind the camera. He examines the historic and cultural environment of the photographs to decipher the relationship between the images and the perspectives of the picture makers. In analyzing the visual rhetoric of these photographs, Bogdan identifies the wide variety of genres, from sideshow souvenirs to clinical photographs. Ranging from the 1860s, when photographs first became readily available, to the 1970s, when the disability rights movement became a force for significant change, Bogdan chronicles the evolution of disability image creation. Picturing Disability takes the reader beyond judging images as positive or slanderous to reveal how particular contexts generate specific emotions and lasting depictions.

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  • Title Picturing Disability: Beggar, Freak, Citizen and Other Photographic Rhetoric
  • Author Robert Bogdan
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 216
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Syracuse University Press
  • Publication date 2012-11-19
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780815633020 / 0815633025
  • Weight 2.16 lbs (0.98 kg)
  • Dimensions 11.18 x 8.76 x 0.94 in (28.40 x 22.25 x 2.39 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Sociological
    • Topical: Physically Challenged
  • Category Sociology
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2012033977
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.908

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  • Choice, 05/01/2013, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 04/29/2013, Page 0

About the author

Robert Bogdan is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Social Science and Disability Studies at Syracuse University. He is the author of several books including Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit and Beauty and the Beast: Human-Animal Relations as Revealed in Real Photo Postcards, 1905-1935.

Martin Elks received his PhD in intellectual disabilities and disability studies at Syracuse University. He is unit manager of disability client management and individual service packages for the Department of Human Services, Victoria, Australia.

James A. Knoll is the chair of the Department of Early Childhood, Elementary, and Special Education at Morehead State University in Kentucky. One of his main research interests is the inclusion of people with disabilities in schools and the community.

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