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Item Number: 135966
Title: Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century S Most Photographed American
Author: Stauffer, John (et al)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780871404688
Description: New York: Liveright, 2015. 29cm., hardcover, 320pp. illus. Summary: A landmark and collectible volume, beautifully produced in duotone, that now canonizes Frederick Douglass through historic photography. It is astonishing to learn that neither Custer nor Twain, nor even Abraham Lincoln, was the most photographed American of the calamitous nineteenth century. It was Frederick Douglass, 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. Now, as a result of groundbreaking research, we can reclaim Douglass as a leading pioneer in photography, both as a stately subject and as a prescient theorist who believed in the explosive social power of what was then just an emerging art form. Included here are all 160 separate photographs of Douglass—many of which have never been publicly seen and were long lost to history—combined with previously unpublished writings and speeches on visual aesthetics. The result promises to transform our understanding of American photography and its vital place in the life and legacy of Douglass himself.
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