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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. First printing. Corners are a bit bumped; spine is slightly cocked; otherwise volume is bright and fresh. 485 p., well illustrated. Large, heavy volume, published at $60.00 [br 41; cme dn r b] Contents: Foreword / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Preface / Jane Pickering -- Introduction / Molly Rogers -- Gallery: The Zealy daguerreotypes -- Part I. Photographic subjects. This intricate question: the "American School" of ethnology and the Zealy daguerreotypes / by Molly Rogers -- The life and times of Alfred, Delia, Drana, Fassena, Jack, Jem, and Renty / Gregg Hecimovich -- History in the face of slavery: A family portrait / Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham -- Portraits of endurance: Enslaved people and vernacular photography in the Antebellum South / Matthew Fox-Amato -- Part II. Photographic practice. The curious art and science of the daguerreotype / John Wood -- Business as usual? Scientific operations in the early photographic studio / Tanya Sheehan -- Mr. Agassiz's "photographic saloon" / Christopher Irmscher -- Part III. Ideas and histories. Of scientific racists and Black abolitionists. The forgotten debate over slavery and race / Manisha Sinha -- "Nowhere else" : South Carolina's role in a continuing tragedy / Harlan Greene -- "Not suitable for public notice" ; Agassiz's evidence / John Stauffer -- The insistent reveal: Louis Agassiz, Joseph T. Zealy, Carrie Mae Weems, and the politics of undress in the photography of racial science / Sarah Elizabeth Lewis -- Part IV. Memory and projection. Gallery: While sitting upon the ruins of your remains, I pondered the course of history / Carrie Mae Weems -- In conversation with Carrie Mae Weems / Deborah Willis -- Exposing latent images: Daguerreotypes in the museum and beyond / Ilisa Barbash -- Teaching, feeling: Daguerreotype reflections / Robin Bernstein with Keziah Clarke, Jonathan Karp, Eliza Blair Mantz, Reggie St. Louis, William Henry Pruitt III, and Ian Askew.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. New York, 2020. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. Very Fine/issued without jacket. A pristine unread copy, still in original shrink-wrap. Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; Preface by Jane Pickering. Introduction by Molly Rogers. fifteen daguerreotypes of Alfred, Delia, Drana, Fassena, Jack, Jem, and Rentymen 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.