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Author:

Stauffer, John, 1965- author.

Title:

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

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Liveright Publishing Corporationa division of W.W. Norton & Company,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xxviii, 288 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm

Subject:

Douglass, Frederick,--1818-1895.
African American abolitionists--Biography.
Abolitionists--United States--Biography.
Douglass, Frederick,--1818-1895--Pictorial works.

Other Authors:

Trodd, Zoe, author.
Bernier, Celeste-Marie, author.

Notes:

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

Contents:

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

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.

ISBN:

0871404680
9780871404688

OCLC:

(OCoLC)902661445

LCCN:

2015020546

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)