Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America
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Within a few years of the introduction of photography into the United States in 1839, slaveholders had already begun commissioning photographic portraits of their slaves. Ex-slaves-turned-abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass had come to see how sitting for a portrait could help them project humanity and dignity amidst northern racism. In the first decade of the medium, enslaved people had begun entering southern daguerreotype studios of their...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0190663936
ISBN13:9780190663933
Release Date:April 2019
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:360 Pages
Weight:1.92 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"
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