Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.
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Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-368) and index.
- Introduction: pictures and progress / Maurice Wallace and Shawn Michelle Smith — A More Perfect Likeness : Frederick Douglass and the image of the nation / Laura Wexler — Rightly viewed : theorizations of self in Frederick Douglass’s lecture on pictures / Ginger Hill — Shadow and substance : Sojourner Truth in black and white / Augusta Rohrbach — Snapshot 1. unredeemed realities: Augustus Washington / Shawn Michelle Smith — Mulatta obscura : camera tactics and Linda Brent / Michael Chaney — Who’s your mama? : white mulatta genealogies, early photography, and anti-passing narratives of slavery and freedom / P. Gabrielle Foreman — Out from behind the mask : Paul Laurence Dunbar, the Hampton Institute Camera Club, and photographic performance of identity / Ray Sapirstein — Snapshot 2. reproducing black masculinity : Thomas Askew / Shawn Michelle Smith — Louis Agassiz and the American school of ethnoeroticism : polygenesis, pornography, and other perfidious influences / Suzanne Schneider — Framing the black soldier : image, uplift, and the duplicity of pictures / Maurice Wallace — Snapshot 3. unfixing the frame(-up): A. P. Bedou / Shawn Michelle Smith — Looking at one’s self through the eyes of others : W. E. B. Du Bois’s photographs for the 1900 Paris Exposition / Shawn Michelle Smith — Ida B. Wells and the shadow archive / Leigh Raiford — Snapshot 4. the photographer’s touch : J. P. Ball / Shawn Michelle Smith — No more auction block for me! / Cheryl Finley.
Subjects:
- Photography — Social aspects — United States — History — 19th century.
- African Americans — Race identity — History — 19th century.
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