Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American
by John Stauffer, Zoe Trodd and Celeste-Marie Bernier
The subtitle of this book is fascinating in itself. Was Frederick Douglass—who escaped slavery to become one of the 19th century’s leading anti-slavery campaigners—really photographed more often than, say, Abraham Lincoln? According to the authors of this book he was. Indeed, if it hadn’t been for the British royal family, he might have been the most photographed person in the world.
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This book is about Frederick Douglass’s love affair with photography, which he was fascinated by. It contains all 160 photographic portraits of Frederick Douglass—from the first in around 1841 to the last in 1895—as well as his four essays on photography.
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