Pictures with Purpose: Early Photographs from the National Museum of African American History and Culture (Double Exposure, 7) - Softcover
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.
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Tanya Sheehan is William R. Kenan Jr. Associate Professor of Art at Colby College and editor of the Archives of American Art Journal.
Lonnie G. Bunch III is the Founding Director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Michèle 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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Lonnie G. Bunch III is the Founding Director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Michèle 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.
"The photographs selected for this seventh volume of the Double Exposure series bear witness to African Americans during a crucial span of history, through the Civil War and its aftermath from the dawn of photography in the United States.”―Lonnie G. Bunch III, Founding Director
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