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Picturing Frederick Douglass : an illustrated biography of the nineteenth century's most photographed American / John Stauffer, Zoe Trodd, and Celeste-Marie Bernier.

Author/creator Stauffer, John, 1965- author.
Format Book and Print
EditionFirst edition.
Publication Info New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2015]
Descriptionxxviii, 288 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm
Subject(s)
Other author/creatorTrodd, Zoe, author.
Other author/creatorBernier, Celeste-Marie author.
Other author/creatorGates, Henry Louis, Jr.
Other author/creatorMorris, Kenneth B., Jr.
Contents Part I. The photographs -- Part II. Contemporaneous artwork -- Part III. The photographic legacy -- Part IV. Douglass's writings on photography -- Part V. Catalogue raisonné -- Epilogue : Frederick Douglass's camera obscura: representing the anti-slave "clothed and in their own form" / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Afterword / Kenneth B. Morris, Jr.
Abstract "Picturing Frederick Douglass is a work that promises to revolutionize our knowledge of race and photography in nineteenth-century America. Teeming with historical detail, it is filled with surprises, chief among them the fact that neither George Custer nor Walt Whitman, and not even Abraham Lincoln, was the most photographed American of that century. In fact, it was Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) the ex-slave turned leading abolitionist, eloquent orator, and seminal writer whose fiery speeches transformed him into one of the most renowned and popular agitators of his age, "--NoveList.
General note"With an Epilogue by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and an Afterword by Kenneth B. Morris, Jr."--Jacket.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 241-251) and index.
Genre/formBiographies.
Genre/formBiography.
Genre/formIllustrated works.
Genre/formPictorial works.
Genre/formBiographies.
Genre/formIllustrated works.
LCCN 2015020546
ISBN9780871404688 (hardcover)
ISBN0871404680 (hardcover)

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Joyner General Stacks E449 .D75 S733 2015 ✔ Available Place Hold