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Picturing Frederick Douglass : an illustrated biography of the nineteenth century's most photographed American /

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,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Stauffer, John, 1965- (Author), Trodd, Zoe (Author), Bernier, Celeste-Marie (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2015]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Douglass, Frederick, > 1818-1895.
African American abolitionists > Biography.
Abolitionists > United States > Biography.
Douglass, Frederick, > 1818-1895 > Pictorial works.
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 raisonnĂ©.