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Mr. Lincoln sits for his portrait : the story of a photograph that became an American icon / Leonard S. Marcus.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Edition: First editionDescription: 115 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780374303488
  • 0374303487
Other title:
  • Mister Lincoln sits for his portrait
  • Story of a photograph that became an American icon
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Rider in the Woods -- A Face to the World -- The Future in Focus -- City Under Construction -- The Artist in the White House -- February 9th : The President's Morning -- February 9th : The President's Afternoon -- Images on the March -- Afterglow.
Summary: "A middle-grade nonfiction book about one of America's most historically resonant images, the circumstances surrounding its creation, and the larger story it tells about Abraham Lincoln's life"-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Dr. James Carlson Library Children's NonFiction 973.7 M322 Available 33111011047525
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's NonFiction 973.7 M322 Available 33111010953061
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Mr. Lincoln Sits for His Portrait is a unique middle-grade depiction of America's sixteenth president, through the story of one famous photograph, written by award-winning author Leonard S. Marcus.

On February 9, 1864, Abraham Lincoln made the mile-long walk from the Executive Mansion to photographer Mathew Brady's Washington, DC, studio, to be joined there later by his ten-year-old son, Tad. With a fractious re-election campaign looming that year, America's first media-savvy president was intent on securing another portrait that cast him in a favorable light, as he prepared to make the case for himself to a nation weary of war.

At least four iconic pictures were made that day. One was Lincoln in profile, the image that later found its way onto the penny; two more would be adapted for the 1928 and 2008 five-dollar bills. The fourth was a dual portrait of Lincoln and Tad. The pose, featuring Lincoln reading to his son, was a last-minute improvisation, but the image that came of it was--and remains--incomparably tender and enduringly powerful.

Immediately after the president's murder the following year, the picture of Lincoln reading to his son became a mass-produced icon--a cherished portrait of a nation's fallen leader, a disarmingly intimate record of a care-worn father's feeling for his child, and a timeless comment on books as a binding force between generations.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 97-99) and index.

Rider in the Woods -- A Face to the World -- The Future in Focus -- City Under Construction -- The Artist in the White House -- February 9th : The President's Morning -- February 9th : The President's Afternoon -- Images on the March -- Afterglow.

"A middle-grade nonfiction book about one of America's most historically resonant images, the circumstances surrounding its creation, and the larger story it tells about Abraham Lincoln's life"-- Provided by publisher.

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