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Picturing Frederick Douglass Celeste-Marie Bernier

Picturing Frederick Douglass von Celeste-Marie Bernier

Picturing Frederick Douglass Celeste-Marie Bernier

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Finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize

A landmark and collectible volumebeautifully produced in duotonethat canonizes Frederick Douglass through historic photography.

Picturing Frederick Douglass Zusammenfassung

Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American Celeste-Marie Bernier

Commemorating the bicentennial of Frederick Douglasss birthday and featuring images discovered since its original publication in 2015, this tour de force (Library Journal, starred review) reintroduced Frederick Douglass to a twenty-first-century audience. From these pageswhich include over 160 photographs of Douglass, as well as his previously unpublished writings and speeches on visual aestheticswe learn that neither Custer nor Twain, nor even Abraham Lincoln, was the most photographed American of the nineteenth century. Indeed, it was Frederick Douglass, the ex-slave-turned-abolitionist, eloquent orator, and seminal writer, who is canonized here as a leading pioneer in photography and a prescient theorist who believed in the explosive social power of what was then just an emerging art form.

Featuring:

  • Contributions from Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Kenneth B. Morris, Jr. (a direct Douglass descendent)
  • 160 separate photographs of Douglassmany of which have never been publicly seen and were long lost to history
  • A collection of contemporaneous artwork that shows how powerful Douglasss photographic legacy remains today, over a century after his death
  • All Douglasss previously unpublished writings and speeches on visual aesthetics

Picturing Frederick Douglass Bewertungen

"These images dont change your mind; they smash through some of the warped lenses through which weve been taught to see." -- David Brooks - New York Times
"Beautifully crafted and contextualized.... the extant photographs illuminate American history and memory." -- The Washington Post
"A terrific new book." -- The New Yorker
"Striking. The most exciting images in the book are those that show us how these 19th-century portraits became, over the decades that follow, a part of the symbolic surround of the modern American landscape. The words in this highly visual book are perhaps even more powerful than the images. Pictures conveyed a precision akin to religious truth, an affective prerequisite for social movements." -- Matthew Pratt Guterl - The New Republic
"Nothing less than a masterpiece in the fields of biography, African-American history, and not least of all the neglected area of iconographyA riveting instant classic and a pure pleasure to behold." -- Harold Holzer, winner of the Lincoln Prize and author of Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
"Picturing Frederick Douglass marries all of my present interests: legacies of slavery; beautiful images of a beautiful man; and the first theory of photography as a democratic medium capable of social change. Stunningly original and elegantly written and designed, it will inspire anyone interested in the links between the visual and the verbal." -- Sally Mann, author of Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs
"Douglass emerges here out of photographic technology's earliest years, with majestic beauty, and through the power of his own self-creations. The book is the result of intrepid research and brilliant analysis; it charts Douglass's life visually, allowing him to look back at us wryly, wistfully, wrathfully." -- David W. Blight, Yale University, and author of Frederick Douglass: A Life
"In Picturing Frederick Douglass, Stauffer, Trodd, and Bernier offer exhilarating scholarship and our idea of Douglass and our sense of photography in nineteenth-century America are deepened. This is brilliant and very moving work." -- Darryl Pinckney, author of High Cotton, Out There and Black Balled: The Black Vote and U.S. Democracy
"Picturing Frederick Douglass marks a significant turn in the long history of Douglasss reception. Both as a subject for photography and as a critical theorist who reflected on the democratic, humane, and truth-telling powers of the medium, Douglass emerges in this beautiful volume in a completely new light." -- W. J. T. Mitchell, author of Seeing Through Race
"Picturing Frederick Douglass is to be shared, studied, read and repeated every six months, not only in the classroom but in our living roomsBeautifully researched and storiedA true treasure!" -- Deborah Willis, author of Reflections in Black and the acclaimed documentary, Through a Lens Darkly
"This stunning volume presents 160 photographs, some for the first time, and they not only follow Douglass throughout his life but also place him within the times he lived. Stauffer, Zoe Trodd, and Celeste-Marie Bernier point out that Douglass saw the truth-telling aspects of photography and how it could be used as a tool in the fight against slavery, as photos both humanized African Americans and revealed the horrors of their enslavement. This tour de force is a must-have that will enhance history and reference collections." -- Patricia Ann Owens - Library Journal, Starred review
"This illustrious book collects all 160 photographs of renowned abolitionist Frederick Douglass and astutely places Douglasss personal interest in photography into the context of his career and legacy. This study provides a multifaceted, unique look at one of the most influential figures of American history." -- Publishers Weekly
"An impressive collectiongive[s] a wonderful picture of the man, his intellect, and his devotion to his main cause, abolition. The authors have pieced together an illuminating life portrait without extraneous biographical material, focusing intensely on their subject's belief in the strength of photographs." -- Kirkus Reviews

Über Celeste-Marie Bernier

Celeste-Marie Bernier is professor of African American studies in the Department of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham. John Stauffer is professor of English, American studies, and African American studies at Harvard University. Zoe Trodd is professor and chair of American literature in the Department of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Ph.D.Cambridge), is Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and American Research, Harvard University. He is the author of Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 15132008; Black in Latin America; Tradition and the Black Atlantic: Critical Theory in the African Diaspora; Faces of America; Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the Racial Self; The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Criticism; Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars; Colored People: A Memoir; The Future of Race with Cornel West; Wonders of the African World; Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man; and The Trials of Phillis Wheatley. His is also the writer, producer, and narrator of PBS documentaries Finding Your Roots; Black in Latin America; Faces of America; African American Lives 1 and 2; Looking for Lincoln; America Beyond the Color Line; and Wonders of the African World. He is the editor of African American National Biography with Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, and The Dictionary of African Biography with Anthony Appiah; Encyclopedia Africana with Anthony Appiah; and The Bondwomans Narrative by Hannah Crafts, as well as editor-in-chief of TheRoot.com. Kenneth B. Morris, Jr. is descended from two of the most important names in American history: he is the great-great-great grandson of Frederick Douglass and the great-great grandson of Booker T. Washington. He is also the Founder and President of the public charity, Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives, which uses education in schools across the U.S. to address and prevent contemporary forms of slavery or human trafficking in communities.

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GOR013952985
9781631494291
1631494295
Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American Celeste-Marie Bernier
Celeste-Marie Bernier
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WW Norton & Co
2018-06-05
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