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

Name: Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American
Brand: Liveright Publishing Corporation
SKU: 9781631494291
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Contributors:

Celeste-Marie Bernier, John Stauffer, Zoe Trodd

Publisher:

Liveright Publishing Corporation

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Biography & Autobiography

Book Subcategory:

Historical, Social Activists, Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

Book Topic:

African American & Black

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Release Date:

2018-02-27

ISBN 13:

9781631494291

Weight:

2.95 lbs

Size:

12.30 x 9.30 x 0.90 inches

Pages:

320

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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 From these pages--which include over 160 photographs of Douglass, as well as his previously unpublished writings and speeches on visual aesthetics--we learn that neither Custer nor Twain, nor even Abraham Lincoln, was the most photographed American of the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.

Featuring:

Contributions from Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Kenneth B. Morris, Jr. (a direct Douglass descendent)
160 separate photographs of Douglass--many of which have never been publicly seen and were long lost to history
A collection of contemporaneous artwork that shows how powerful Douglass's photographic legacy remains today, over a century after his death
All Douglass's previously unpublished writings and speeches on visual aesthetics

About the Author
Bernier, Celeste-Marie: - Celeste-Marie Bernier is professor of African American studies in the Department of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham.Stauffer, John: - John Stauffer is professor of English, American studies, and African American studies at Harvard University.Trodd, Zoe: - Zoe Trodd is professor and chair of American literature in the Department of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham.
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