Narrative — Frederick Douglass I

A ghost print of Frederick Douglass in profile, his famous mane of hair traced in a fine embossed line over soft, cloudy gray. Quiet and dignified, like an old photograph slowly coming into view.

The story

Frederick Douglass (c. 1818–1895) escaped slavery in 1838 and became one of the most powerful voices of the abolitionist movement: a speaker, writer, newspaper publisher and statesman. His first autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845), became a bestseller. He believed photographs could show the dignity of Black Americans, and he sat for so many portraits that he is often called the most photographed American of the 19th century.

Details

• Hand-pulled acrylic print on deckle-edge paper
• 25 × 28 in
• Signed by the artist
• One of a kind: each print in the series is pulled by hand, so no two are alike
• Ships unframed