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Picturing Frederick Douglass de John Stauffer

Picturing Frederick Douglass

Autor John Stauffer, Zoe Trodd, Celeste-Marie Bernier
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 2 noi 2015

Nivel de studiu: referință academică și documentare pentru licență sau master în istorie americană și studii vizuale. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Picturing Frederick Douglass – An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century`s Most Photographed American reușește să redefinească o figură istorică centrală nu doar prin prisma oratoriei, ci prin utilizarea strategică a imaginii. Analiza semnată de Celeste–marie Bernier și colegii săi demonstrează că Douglass a fost cel mai fotografiat american al secolului al XIX-lea, înțelegând intuitiv potențialul democratic al dagherotipiei. Reținem că acest volum, produs în condiții grafice deosebite prin tehnica duotone, integrează peste 160 de fotografii, unele pierdute timp de decenii și recuperate pentru această ediție aniversară. Dincolo de componenta biografică, lucrarea aduce la lumină scrieri teoretice ale lui Douglass despre estetica vizuală, oferind o perspectivă rară asupra modului în care un fost sclav a folosit tehnologia emergentă pentru a-și construi o identitate de om liber și demn. Cititorii familiarizați cu Pictures and Power – Imaging and Imagining Frederick Douglass 1818–2018 vor aprecia modul în care acest volum completează arhiva vizuală cu eseuri critice noi și documente inedite, oferind o bază factuală mai densă pentru înțelegerea iconografiei aboliționiste. Spre deosebire de lucrările care analizează fotografia de epocă la modul general, precum Pictures and Progress, acest titlu se concentrează exclusiv pe moștenirea vizuală a lui Douglass, transformând biografia clasică într-o istorie culturală a privirii.

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ISBN-13: 9780871404688
ISBN-10: 0871404680
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 238 x 312 x 32 mm
Greutate: 1.67 kg
Editura: Liveright Publishing Corporation

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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. Now, as a result of the groundbreaking research of John Stauffer, Zoe Trodd, and Celeste-Marie Bernier, Douglass emerges 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 a nascent art form.
Indeed, Frederick Douglass was in love with photography. During the four years of Civil War, he wrote more extensively on the subject than any other American, even while recognizing that his audiences were "riveted" by the war and wanted a speech only on "this mighty struggle." He frequented photographers' studios regularly and sat for his portrait whenever he could. To Douglass, photography was the great "democratic art" that would finally assert black humanity in place of the slave "thing" and at the same time counter the blackface minstrelsy caricatures that had come to define the public perception of what it meant to be black. As a result, his legacy is inseparable from his portrait gallery, which contains 160 separate photographs.
At last, all of these photographs have been collected into a single volume, giving us an incomparable visual biography of a man whose prophetic vision and creative genius knew no bounds. Chronologically arranged and generously captioned, from the first picture taken in around 1841 to the last in 1895, each of the images--many published here for the first time--emphasizes Douglass's evolution as a man, artist, and leader. Also included are other representations of Douglass during his lifetime and after--such as paintings, statues, and satirical cartoons--as well as Douglass's own writings on visual aesthetics, which have never before been transcribed from his own handwritten drafts.
The comprehensive introduction by the authors, along with headnotes for each section, an essay by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and an afterword by Kenneth B. Morris, Jr.--a direct Douglass descendent--provide the definitive examination of Douglass's intellectual, philosophical, and political relationships to aesthetics. Taken together, this landmark work canonizes Frederick Douglass through a form he appreciated the most: photography.
Featuring:
  • Contributions from Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Kenneth B. Morris, Jr. (a direct Douglass descendent)
  • 160 separate photographs of Douglass--many of which have never been publicly seen and were long lost to history
  • A collection of contemporaneous artwork that shows how powerful Douglass's photographic legacy remains today, over a century after his death
  • All Douglass's previously unpublished writings and speeches on visual aesthetics

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Finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize A landmark and collectible volume—beautifully produced in duotone—that canonizes Frederick Douglass through historic photography. Commemorating the bicentennial of Frederick Douglass’s 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 pages—which include over 160 photographs of Douglass, as well as his previously unpublished writings and speeches on visual aesthetics—we 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 Douglass—many of which have never been publicly seen and were long lost to history A collection of contemporaneous artwork that shows how powerful Douglass’s photographic legacy remains today, over a century after his death All Douglass’s previously unpublished writings and speeches on visual aesthetics