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Photographic presidents : making history from daguerreotype to digital /

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Lincoln's somber portraits. Lyndon Johnson's swearing in. George W. Bush's reaction to learning about the 9/11 attacks. Photography plays an indelible role in how we remember and define American presidents. Throughout history, presidents have actively participated in all aspects of ph...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Finnegan, Cara A. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Presidents > United States > Portraits.
Portrait photography > United States > History.
Portraits, American.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I: The daguerreotype presidents. Photographing George Washington
  • Early Daguerreotypes in the U. S. and the nation's capital
  • John Quincy Adams and national portraiture
  • Part II: The snapshot president. Handheld photography and the halftone revolution
  • William McKinley's last photographs
  • Part III: The candid camera presidents. Visual news in the early twentieth century
  • Herbert Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt, and the candid camera
  • Part IV: The social media president. Changing visual media from the mid-twentieth century to the digital age
  • Barack Obama and Flickr
  • Conclusion: The portrait makes our president.