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050 00 $aF73.9.N4$bM58 2005
082 00 $a974.4/61/00496073$222
100 1 $aMitchell, John Hanson.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83160730
245 10 $aLooking for Mr. Gilbert :$bthe reimagined life of an African American /$cJohn Hanson Mitchell.
260 $aWashington, D.C. :$bShoemaker & Hoard :$bDistributed by Publishers Group West,$c[2005], ©2005.
300 $a278 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"In the mid 1970s, John Hanson Mitchell discovered over two thousand antique glass plate negatives in the attic of an old estate in Massachusetts. At the time, he believed the photographs to be the work of William Brewster, a well-known nineteenth-century ornithologist and conservationist. But as a result of a tip from a Harvard research assistant, Mitchell came to believe that the plates were not the work of Brewster, but of his assistant, a little-known African American named Robert Gilbert." "In his quest to uncover the story of Mr. Gilbert, Mitchell's trail leads from the labyrinthine archives of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard to the countryside of Virginia; from the haunts of American expatriates in Paris to the culturally-rich world of African Americans in Boston at the turn of the last century. Through careful deconstruction of the photographic images, Mitchell is not only able to make visible this invisible man, he also begins to understand the role of the photograph in our modern conceptions of time and mortality. From the investigation of the haunting photographs of landscapes and people, Mr. Gilbert slowly comes into focus as a quiet, unassuming Renaissance man, a polymath who forged on in the face of social pressures and the iron ceiling of American racism."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aGilbert, Robert Alexander,$d1870-1942.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2004030552
600 10 $aBrewster, William,$d1851-1919$xFriends and associates.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$zMassachusetts$zBoston$vBiography.
650 0 $aAfrican American photographers$zMassachusetts$zBoston$vBiography.
650 0 $aPhotographers$zMassachusetts$zBoston$vBiography.
651 0 $aBoston (Mass.)$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114439
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0421/2004017305.html
852 00 $boff,glx$hF73.9.N4$iM58 2005