Join Cara Finnegan for a virtual talk with The Literary on her book Photographic Presidents: Making History from Daguerreotype to Digital.
Register here: https://illinois.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zO6xgP-0TXChUgIFoKcMkg
About the book:
Throughout history, presidents have actively participated in all aspects of photography, not only by sitting for photos but by taking and consuming them. Cara A. Finnegan ventures from a newly discovered daguerreotype of John Quincy Adams to Barack Obama’s selfies to tell the stories of how presidents have participated in the medium’s transformative moments. As she shows, technological developments not only changed photography but introduced new visual values that influence how we judge an image. At the same time, presidential photographs—as representations of leaders who symbolized the nation—sparked public debate on these values and their implications.
