Professor Elizabeth Edwards explores how the emerging mass medium of photography engaged with popular Darwinian ideas in the nineteenth century, and how notions of race, 'type' and 'hard science' collided with troubling results.

Fitzwilliam Museum - Darwin and the Arts

14. Evolving Images: Race and Popular Darwinism in Nineteenth-Century Photography

Science meets art in this ground-breaking exhibition, which explores the fascinating relationship between the revolutionary theories of Charles Darwin and nineteenth-century art.

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