The skull and profile plates of “scientific racism”
Skulls and profiles lined up in a sequence that slid from European to African to ape, with the drawings distorted to make the sequence work. The visual grammar of comparison did the arguing, and it was used to defend slavery.
The imagery is not reproduced here; the link goes to the scholarship on it.
By
Nott and Gliddon, Types of Mankind, and others · 1854
Where
History & power · Pseudoscience
Form
Static image · to persuade
Visual
Comparison, Sequence
Original