TY - BOOK ID - 131728859 TI - To make their own way in the world : the enduring legacy of the Zealy daguerreotypes AU - Weems, Carrie Mae AU - Barbash, Ilisa AU - Rogers, Molly AU - Willis, Deborah AU - Gates, Henry Louis PY - 2020 SN - 9781597114783 PB - Cambridge Peabody Museum Press DB - UniCat KW - Photography KW - ethnology KW - racial discrimination KW - slavery KW - daguerreotypes [photographs] KW - #breakthecanon KW - anno 1800-1899 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131728859 AB - *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 multidisciplinary volume features essays by prominent scholars who explore such topics as the identities of the people depicted in the daguerreotypes, the close relationship between photography and race, and visual narratives of slavery and its lasting effects. With over two hundred illustrations, including new photography by Carrie Mae Weems, this book frames the Zealy daguerreotypes as works of urgent engagement. ER -