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Pictures with Purpose: Early Photographs from the National Museum of African American History and Culture

Pictures with Purpose: Early Photographs from the National Museum of African American History and Culture

Moresi, Michèle Gates
Coyle, Laura
Bunch, Lonnie G.

Paperback

Series: Double Exposure, Book 7

Black American StudiesGeneral Photography

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ISBN10: 1911282239
ISBN13: 9781911282235
Publisher: Giles
Published: Apr 9 2019
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.40 Width: 7.10 Depth: 7.10
Language: English

Pictures with Purpose, the seventh volume in the Double Exposure series, explores images from the NMAAHC's collection of nineteenth and early twentieth-century photography that includes daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, cartes de visite, cabinet cards, cyanotypes, stereographs, and other early photographic forms. The volume looks at how early photographs of and by African Americans were circulated and used, and considers their meaning, for the sitter, for the photographer, and for the owner of the photograph. Particularly significant is how African Americans used photography to shape their image within and beyond their communities.

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