{"product_id":"picturing-frederick-douglass-celeste-marie-bernier-9781631494291","title":"Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American","description":"Commemorating the bicentennial of Frederick Douglass's birthday and featuring images discovered since its original publication in 2015, this \"tour de force\" (\u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 From these pages--which include over 160 photographs of Douglass, as well as his previously unpublished writings and speeches on visual aesthetics--we learn that neither Custer nor Twain, nor even Abraham Lincoln, was the most photographed American of the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. \u003cp\u003eFeaturing: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eContributions from Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Kenneth B. Morris, Jr. (a direct Douglass descendent)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e160 separate photographs of Douglass--many of which have never been publicly seen and were long lost to history\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA collection of contemporaneous artwork that shows how powerful Douglass's photographic legacy remains today, over a century after his death\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAll Douglass's previously unpublished writings and speeches on visual aesthetics\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Celeste-Marie Bernier, John Stauffer, Zoe Trodd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1631494295\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781631494291\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liveright Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/27\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 12.30h x 9.30w x 0.90d","brand":"Celeste-Marie Bernier","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44043373543679,"sku":"9781631494291","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b9ed9fc3-ed0d-43bb-9064-60a7a0e5b6b7.jpg?v=1684966787","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/picturing-frederick-douglass-celeste-marie-bernier-9781631494291","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}