To Make Their Own Way in the World: The Enduring Legacy of the Zealy Daguerreotypes
Ilisa Barbash, Molly Rogers, and Deborah Willis
To Make Their Own Way in the World: The Enduring Legacy of the Zealy Daguerreotypes, copublished by Aperture and Peabody Museum Press, 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, the images were rediscovered at Harvard’s Peabody Museum in 1976.
.jpeg)
