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Pictures with Purpose
National Museum of African American History and Culture
By: Tanya Sheehan, Lonnie G. Bunch III, Mich le Gates Moresi, Laura Coyle
Paperback | 19 May 2019
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Pictures with Purpose, 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.
Pictures with Purpose 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.
Book Features:
- Seventh volume in the Double Exposure photography series
- Considers how African Americans used photography to shape their image within and beyond their communities
- 50 colour and b/w photographs
Tanya Sheehan is Chair of the Department of Art at Colby College and an early photography scholar. Lonnie G. Bunch III is the Founding Director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Michele Gates Moresi is Supervisory Museum Curator of Collections at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Laura Coyle is Head of Cataloguing and Digitization at National Museum of African American History and Culture.
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ISBN: 9781911282235
ISBN-10: 1911282239
Series: Double Exposure
Published: 19th May 2019
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 72
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Giles
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 18.0 x 18.0 x 0.64
Weight (kg): 0.23
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