so, isaacjulien, why did you choose frederick douglass as a subject?ose male figures and historical ones, rather than focusing more on contemporary issues orfemale protagonists. well, i think, in a way, with frederick douglass, i was very drawn to the fact that he was someone who had been an abolitionist, that he lived for at least over two years in scotland — at the time that he wrote his book, his autobiography in terms of being a slave — to escape being re—enslaved. and i was just very, in a way, kind of moved by his story and his biography, and also the way in which he was able to utilise the english language in such an incredible manner and his sense of oratory. but i think, also, there's a way in which with douglass... i mean, i didn't know that he was the most photographed man of the 19th century, more so than lincoln, that he had a whole philosophy about photography, his aesthetic theory about photography, photography as an emancipatory tool, along with all of his different theories around the idea of picture—making, that picture—making, both i

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