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

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ISBN: 0871404680
ISBN: 9780871404688
ISBN: 0871404680 : HRD
ISBN: 9780871404688 : HRD
ISBN: 9780871404688
ISBN: 0871404680
Physical Description: xxviii, 288 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm.
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W.Norton & Company, [2015]
Copyright: ©2015.

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-276) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Part I. The photographs -- Part II. Contemporaneous artwork -- Part III. The photographic legacy -- Part IV. Douglass's writings on photography -- Part V. Catalogue raisonn.
Summary, etc.:	"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.