To Make Their Own Way in the World: The Enduring Legacy of the Zealy Daguerreotypes

New York: Aperture, 2020.
ISBN: 9781597114783
Condition: As New
Hardcover
First Edition
16.5 x 23.5 cm 488 pp, 230 four-color and black-and-white images

To Make Their Own Way in the World is a profound consideration of some of the most challenging images in the history of photography: fifteen daguerreotypes of Alfred, Delia, Drana, Fassena, Jack, Jem, and Renty—men and women of African descent who were enslaved in South Carolina. Photographed by Joseph T. Zealy for Harvard professor Louis Agassiz in 1850, they were rediscovered at Harvard’s Peabody Museum in 1976. This groundbreaking multidisciplinary volume features essays by prominent scholars who explore such topics as the identities of the people depicted in the daguerreotypes, the close relationship between photography and race, and visual narratives of slavery and its lasting effects. With over two hundred illustrations, including new photography by Carrie Mae Weems, this book frames the Zealy daguerreotypes as works of urgent engagement. Item #19968

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To Make Their Own Way in the World: The Enduring Legacy of the Zealy Daguerreotypes. Molly Rogers Ilisa Barbash, Deborah Willis.
To Make Their Own Way in the World: The Enduring Legacy of the Zealy Daguerreotypes. Molly Rogers Ilisa Barbash, Deborah Willis.
To Make Their Own Way in the World: The Enduring Legacy of the Zealy Daguerreotypes. Molly Rogers Ilisa Barbash, Deborah Willis.