Looking for Mr. Gilbert

The Reimagined Life of an African American

John Hanson Mitchell

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Counterpoint
28 December 2006

General & world history

"Thirty years ago in the attic of an old estate in Massachusetts, John Hanson Mitchell discovered over two thousand antique glass plate negatives. He was told that the photographs had been taken by nineteenth-century ornithologist and conservationist William Brewster, but as a result of a tip from a Harvard research assistant, he began to suspect that the images were actually the work of Brewster's African American assistant, Robert A. Gilbert.

So begins the author's journey. From the maze-like archives at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology to the Virginia countryside and haunts of American expats in 1920s Paris, as well as the rich cultural world of blacks in nineteenth-century Boston, Mitchell brings sharp focus to the figure of Mr. Gilbert, a quiet, unassuming Renaissance man who succeeded as best as he could beneath the iron ceiling of American racism. Told with Mitchell's trademark grace and style, the fascinating story of this ""invisible man"" deepens our understanding of the African American past as well as the history of American photography."

By: John Hanson Mitchell
Imprint: Counterpoint
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 411g
ISBN: 9781593761424
ISBN 10: 1593761422
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 28 December 2006
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

John Hanson Mitchell's work is focused on a square mile tract of land known as Scratch Flat, located about thirty-five miles north-west of Boston. Mitchell has used this anomalous landscape of rolling hills, farms, forests and encroaching suburbs to explore his continuing interest in natural and human history and the whole question of place in human cultures, both native and European. Best known of this series of books is the first, Ceremonial Time- Fifteen Thousand Years on One Square Mile, a New York Times Editors' Choice. The latest book in the group is An Eden of Sorts- The Natural History of My Feral Garden. All of these books have been collected together in a series known as The Scratch Flat Chronicles.

Reviews for Looking for Mr. Gilbert: The Reimagined Life of an African American

...a valuable resource of information for those...interested in the statistical analysis of multi-samples of censored ordered data. (Mathematical Reviews, 2006k)