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Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American

Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American

Bernier, Celeste-Marie
Stauffer, John
Trodd, Zoe

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Biographies GeneralHistorical Figures

Publisher Price: $35.00

ISBN10: 1631494295
ISBN13: 9781631494291
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Published: Feb 27 2018
Pages: 320
Weight: 2.95
Height: 0.90 Width: 9.30 Depth: 12.30
Language: English
Commemorating the bicentennial of Frederick Douglass's birthday and featuring images discovered since its original publication in 2015, this tour de force (Library Journal, starred review) reintroduced Frederick Douglass to a twenty-first-century audience. From these pages--which include over 160 photographs of Douglass, as well as his previously unpublished writings and speeches on visual aesthetics--we learn that neither Custer nor Twain, nor even Abraham Lincoln, was the most photographed American of the nineteenth century. Indeed, it was Frederick Douglass, the ex-slave-turned-abolitionist, eloquent orator, and seminal writer, who is canonized here as a leading pioneer in photography and a prescient theorist who believed in the explosive social power of what was then just an emerging art form.

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