Runaway slave Sojourner Truth gained fame in the nineteenth century as an abolitionist, feminist, and orator and earned a living partly by selling cartes de visite of herself at lectures and by mail. Cartes de visite, similar in format to calling cards, were collectible novelties that quickly became a new mode of mass communication. Despite being illiterate, Truth copyrighted her prints in her name and added the caption "I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance. Sojourner Truth." Featuring the largest collection of Truth's photographs ever published, Enduring Truths is the first book to explore how she used her image, the press, the postal service, and copyright laws to support her activism and herself. Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby establishes a range of important contexts for Truth's images, including the significance of a sitter copyrighting her photographic portrait in her name, the shared politics of Truth's cartes de visite and federal paper bank notes newly created to fund the Union cause, and the ways that photochemical limitations complicated the portrayal of different skin tones. Insightful and powerful, Enduring Truths shows how Truth made her photographic portrait worth money in order to end slavery-and also became the strategic author of her public self.
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Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby is professor of the history of art at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Extremities: Painting Empire in Post-Revolutionary France and Colossal: Engineering the Suez Canal, Statue of Liberty, Eiffel Tower, and Panama Canal.
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Condición: New. Runaway slave Sojourner Truth gained fame in the nineteenth century as an abolitionist, feminist, and orator and earned a living partly by selling cartes de visite of herself at lectures and by mail. This book explores how she used her image, the press, the postal service, and copyright laws to support her activism and herself. Num Pages: 224 pages, 131 colour plates, 27 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBTS; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 307 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1270. . 2015. Hardcover. . . . . Nº de ref. del artículo: V9780226192130
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Hardcover. Condición: VG+: New in shrinkwrap. A hardcover book with a matte orange dust jacket. The title is printed in white down a black spine. "Runaway slave Sojourner Truth gained fame in the nineteenth century as an abolitionist, feminist, and orator and earned a living partly by selling photographic carte de visite portraits of herself at lectures and by mail. Cartes de visite, similar in format to calling cards, were relatively inexpensive collectibles that quickly became a new mode of mass communication. Despite being illiterate, Truth copyrighted her photographs in her name and added the caption "I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance. Sojourner Truth." Featuring the largest collection of Truth's photographs ever published, Enduring Truths is the first book to explore how she used her image, the press, the postal service, and copyright laws to support her activism and herself. Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby establishes a range of important contexts for Truth's portraits, including the strategic role of photography and copyright for an illiterate former slave; the shared politics of Truth's cartes de visite and federal banknotes, which were both created to fund the Union cause; and the ways that photochemical limitations complicated the portrayal of different skin tones. Insightful and powerful, Enduring Truths shows how Truth made her photographic portrait worth money in order to end slavery--and also became the strategic author of her public self." Contents are as follows: The early cartes de visite : Truth in Indiana 1861 ; Truth as Libyan sibyl ; Truth in Michigan 1863 -- Shadows and substance : Truth's captioned cartes de visite after 1864 ; Shadows and chemistry -- Texts and circulating paper : Truth's illiteracy ; Truth's copyright ; Money and the Civil War -- Collecting and the late photographs : Album politics ; Truth's last portraits 1881-83. Nº de ref. del artículo: 202525
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Condición: New. Runaway slave Sojourner Truth gained fame in the nineteenth century as an abolitionist, feminist, and orator and earned a living partly by selling cartes de visite of herself at lectures and by mail. This book explores how she used her image, the press, the postal service, and copyright laws to support her activism and herself. Num Pages: 224 pages, 131 colour plates, 27 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBTS; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 307 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1270. . 2015. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Nº de ref. del artículo: V9780226192130
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