Picturing Frederick Douglass
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  alternate name: African American abolitionists--Biography
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  alternate name: African American abolitionists
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  alternate name: Abolitionists
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  alternate name: Abolitionists--United States--Portraits
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  alternate name: Abolitionists--United States--Biography
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  alternate name: African American abolitionists--Portraits
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abstract: "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 From these pages--which include over 160 photographs of Douglass, as well as his previously unpublished writings and speeches on visual aesthetics--we learn that neither Custer nor Twain, nor even Abraham Lincoln, was the most photographed American of the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."--wwnorton.com.
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310178687
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310223297
creator: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310223295
language: eng
subject of: Statement
  additional type: http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300195187
  text: Part I. The photographs -- Part II. Contemporaneous artwork -- Part III. The photographic legacy -- Part IV. Douglass's writings on photography -- Part V. Catalogue raisonné -- Epilogue / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Afterword / Kenneth B. Morris, Jr.
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