{"product_id":"pictures-with-purpose-michle-gates-moresi-9781911282235","title":"Pictures with Purpose: Early Photographs from the National Museum of African American History and Culture","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePictures with Purpose\u003c\/i\u003e, the seventh volume in the Double Exposure series, explores images from the NMAAHC's collection of nineteenth and early twentieth-century photography that includes daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, cartes de visite, cabinet cards, cyanotypes, stereographs, and other early photographic forms. The volume looks at how early photographs of and by African Americans were circulated and used, and considers their meaning, for the sitter, for the photographer, and for the owner of the photograph. Particularly significant is how African Americans used photography to shape their image within and beyond their communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePictures with Purpose\u003c\/i\u003e features images of unknown African Americans before and after Emancipation--including children, couples, images of young African American soldiers in Civil War-era military uniform, and African American nursemaids with their white charges. Also included are photographs of renowned African Americans such as Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and Mary Church Terrell. Photographers include J.P. Ball, Cornelius M. Battey, Matthew Brady, Frances B. Johnston, and Augustus Washington.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mich鑞e Gates Moresi, Laura Coyle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1911282239\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781911282235\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Giles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/09\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.10h x 7.10w x 0.40d","brand":"Mich鑞e Gates Moresi","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44046455537919,"sku":"9781911282235","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d40ba49a-07d1-4482-8296-0d9f6d7877b1.jpg?v=1684984663","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/pictures-with-purpose-michle-gates-moresi-9781911282235","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}