Frederick Douglass (Junior World Biographies)

Banta, Melissa

Children's Books

Chelsea House Pub

Examines the life and career of the first Black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, focusing on his role during the Persian Gulf War

Colin Powell: A Complete Soldier (Junior World Biographies)

Biographies

Chelsea Clubhouse

A biography of the man who, after escaping slavery, became an orator, writer, and leader in the anti-slavery movement in the nineteenth century

Colin Powell (Junior World Biographies)

From Site To Sight

Arts & Photography

Hinsley, Curtis M.

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Harvard University Press

In 1986 the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard mounted From Site to Sight, a groundbreaking traveling exhibition on the historic and contemporary uses of photography in anthropology. Using visual materials from the vast photographic archives of the Peabody Museum and the work of members of Harvard’s anthropology department, the accompanying catalog investigates how anthropologists have employed the camera as a recording and analytic tool and as an aesthetic medium. Photographs ranging from daguerreotypes to satellite images are presented in an examination of the possibilities and limitations of using the camera as a fact-gathering and interpretive tool. The authors also explore the broader implications of the uses―and misuses―of visual imagery within the human sciences. 
From Site to Sight has been a foundational text for scholars and students in the developing field of visual anthropology, illustrating the role of photographic imagery in anthropology and archaeology from the disciplines’ formative years to the 1980s. Long out of print, this classic publication is now available in an enhanced thirtieth anniversary edition with a new introductory essay by Ira Jacknis.

From Site to Sight: Anthropology, Photography, and the Power of Imagery, Thirtieth Anniversary Edition

Photography & Video

Peabody Museum Press

Delving into the images and technique that made the daguerreotype a cutting-edge technology in 1839, the author uses her access to Harvard's collection of images to explore the early phases of this format.

A Curious and Ingenious Art: Reflections on Daguerreotypes at Harvard

University Of Iowa Press

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