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Lincoln, Life-Size
An essential collection of photographic portraits of Abraham Lincoln, in a striking format, from “the foremost family of Lincoln pictorial scholarship” (Harold Holzer).
This unique and beautiful book captures an overlooked but vital aspect of Lincoln: his face. While he was known as an ugly man, and he even joked about that reputation, Lincoln’s contemporaries often comment...more
This unique and beautiful book captures an overlooked but vital aspect of Lincoln: his face. While he was known as an ugly man, and he even joked about that reputation, Lincoln’s contemporaries often comment...more
Hardcover, 208 pages
Published
November 3rd 2009
by Knopf
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A fascinating study of Lincoln's face through photographs and the scholars who have studied and cataloged these photos.
Each entry is a 2-page spread. On the left side of the book is a date for when the photo was taken along with the photo. Next to the photo is a set of circumstances in almost anecdotal form that tells what was happening in Lincoln's life at the time or around the time the photo was taken.
Below the photo is a catalog #. A detailed description of this numbe...more
Each entry is a 2-page spread. On the left side of the book is a date for when the photo was taken along with the photo. Next to the photo is a set of circumstances in almost anecdotal form that tells what was happening in Lincoln's life at the time or around the time the photo was taken.
Below the photo is a catalog #. A detailed description of this numbe...more
This is an absolutely wonderful collection of Lincoln portraits. Each portrait is accompanied by a description of where and when the picture was taken and an anecdote about what Lincoln was doing at or near the time the picture was taken. Lincoln's face is so interesting. He seems almost like two people, depending on which side of his face is pictured. I was happy to learn that the photo, on which the penny profile is based, was taken 100 years to the day before I was born.
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