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

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1597114782
• ISBN13: 9781597114783
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Aperture
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.9" x 9.5"