Jasmine Nichole Cobb: 1 book
Picture Freedom
Remaking Black Visuality in the Early Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
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...
