Eugenics 'Aristogenics' Photography

<p>This is the first study to explore the connections between late-19th-century university/college composite class portraits and the field of eugenics – which first took hold in the United States at Harvard University. <em>Eugenics Aristogenics Photography</em> takes a closer look at how composite portraiture documented an idealized “reality” of the New England social-caste experience and explains how when positioned in relation to the individual stories and portraits of members of the class the portraits reveal points of non-conformity and rebellion with their own rhetoric.</p>