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Social outsiders


 
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Contents

Introduction
1Introduction to the portraiture of social outsiders
2Documentary studies on social outsiders
Minorities
3Introduction to the photography of ethnic groups and minorities
4Native Americans
5Romani, Roma, Gypsies (includes a number of nomadic groups)
Sideshow performers
6Sideshow performers, living museums and circus acts
7Thoughts of the portraiture of ethnic groups
Illness
8The private world of illness
Mental health
9Insane asylum patients (1870s)
Economic status
10Beggars
Criminality
11Wanted criminals
Photographers
12Hugh Welch Diamond: Patients at Surrey County Asylum (ca. 1855)
13James Crichton-Browne: West Riding Lunatic Asylum, Wakefield, Yorkshire, Great Britain
14Albert Londe: Female patients with mental illness
15Augustus Francis Sherman: Ellis Island portraits
16Danny Lyon: The Bikeriders (1968)
17Danny Lyon: Conversations with the Dead (1971)
18Diane Arbus: Book covers
19Philip-Lorca diCorcia: Street hustlers

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