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Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American
Contributor(s): Bernier, Celeste-Marie (Author), Stauffer, John (Author), Trodd, Zoe (Author)

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 ISBN: 1631494295     ISBN-13: 9781631494291
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- Biography & Autobiography | Social Activists
- Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - African American & Black
Dewey: B
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 9.3" W x 12.3" L (2.95 lbs) 320 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Topical - Black History
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product
 
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Publisher Description:
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 From these pages--which include over 160 photographs of Douglass, as well as his previously unpublished writings and speeches on visual aesthetics--we learn that neither Custer nor Twain, nor even Abraham Lincoln, was the most photographed American of the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  • All Douglass's previously unpublished writings and speeches on visual aesthetics

Contributor Bio(s): 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.Morris, Kenneth B.: - Kenneth B. Morris, Jr. is descended from two of the most important names in American history: he is the great-great-great grandson of Frederick Douglass and the great-great grandson of Booker T. Washington. He is also the Founder and President of the public charity, Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives, which uses education in schools across the U.S. to address and prevent contemporary forms of slavery or human trafficking in communities.Gates, Henry Louis: - Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Ph.D.Cambridge), is Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and American Research, Harvard University. He is the author of Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008; Black in Latin America; Tradition and the Black Atlantic: Critical Theory in the African Diaspora; Faces of America; Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the Racial Self; The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Criticism; Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars; Colored People: A Memoir; The Future of Race with Cornel West; Wonders of the African World; Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man; and The Trials of Phillis Wheatley. His is also the writer, producer, and narrator of PBS documentaries Finding Your Roots; Black in Latin America; Faces of America; African American Lives 1 and 2; Looking for Lincoln; America Beyond the Color Line; and Wonders of the African World. He is the editor of African American National Biography with Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, and The Dictionary of African Biography with Anthony Appiah; Encyclopedia Africana with Anthony Appiah; and The Bondwoman's Narrative by Hannah Crafts, as well as editor-in-chief of TheRoot.com.
 
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