the selfie
- Who was Frederick Douglass? Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer activist, abolitionist, writer and statesman.
- What is a Daguerreotype? a photograph taken by an early photographic process employing an iodine- sensitized silvered plate and mercury vapour.
- Why might Douglass have wanted portraits to be made of himself? because he was a black man and he wanted things to change as it wasn't normal or black people to have paintings of them
Samuel J Miller - Frederick Douglass, 1847-52
- Who is Omar Victor Diop? a self taught Senegalese photographer.
- What does the word ‘Diaspora’ mean?
- Why might Diop have wanted to create a self-portrait ‘disguised’ as Frederick Douglass?
- Who is Omar Victor Diop? a self taught Senegalese photographer.
- What details in this picture do you find interesting?the dispersion or spread of any people from their original homeland.
- Why is the picture circular? to make it stand out