To Make Their Own Way In The World: The Enduring Legacy Of The Zealy Daguerreotypes by Ilisa Barbash, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

To Make Their Own Way in the World is a profoundconsideration of some of the most challengingimages in the history of photography: fifteendaguerreotypes of Alfred, Delia, Drana, Fassena, Jack, Jem, and Renty-men and women ofAfrican descent who were enslaved in SouthCarolina. Photographed by Joseph T. Zealy forHarvard professor Louis Agassiz in 1850, theywere rediscovered at Harvard's Peabody Museumin 1976. This groundbreaking multidisciplinaryvolume features essays by prominent scholarswho explore such topics as the identities of thepeople depicted in the daguerreotypes, the closerelationship between photography and race, andvisual narratives of slavery and its lasting effects. With over two hundred illustrations, includingnew photography by Carrie Mae Weems, thisbook frames the Zealy daguerreotypes as worksof urgent engagement. Copublished by Aperture and Peabody Museum Press | To Make Their Own Way In The World: The Enduring Legacy Of The Zealy Daguerreotypes by Ilisa Barbash, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters