Pictures With Purpose : : Early Photographs From the National Museum of African American History and Culture

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Call Number: 305.896 Pi, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Art / Photography / Pictures with purpose
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

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Foreword / Lonnie G. Bunch III -- The social lives of photographs / Laura Coyle and Michèle Gates Moresi -- Vernacular photography: a plurality of purposes / Tanya Sheehan -- Photographs.
Pictures with Purpose, the next volume in the Double Exposure series, explores images from the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture'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 circulate 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.

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