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Picture Freedom: Remaking Black Visuality in the Early Nineteenth Century
Picture Freedom Remaking Black Visuality in the Early Nineteenth Century
Author: Jasmine Nichole Cobb
In the decades leading up to the end of U.S. slavery, many free Blacks sat for daguerreotypes decorated in fine garments to document their self-possession. People pictured in these early photographs used portraiture to seize control over representation of the free Black body and reimagine Black visuality divorced from the cultural logics of slav...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781479829774
ISBN-10: 1479829773
Publication Date: 3/27/2015
Pages: 288
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Publisher: NYU Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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