Bibliograph

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

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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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-276) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Picturing Frederick Douglass

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

902661445

Responsibility statement

John Stauffer, Zoe Trodd, and Celeste-Marie Bernier

Sub title

an illustrated biography of the nineteenth century's most photographed American

Summary

"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

Table Of Contents

Part I. The photographs -- Part II. Contemporaneous artwork -- Part III. The photographic legacy -- Part IV. Douglass's writings on photography -- Part V. Catalogue raisonn

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