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"This Heart's Geography's Map"
From: The Virginia Quarterly Review
Date: 20050401
Author:Folsom, Ed
The Photographs of Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman was fascinated with photographic images of himself. From the 1840s until within a year of his death, Whitman sat for photographers, collected and commented on the results, admired certain poses and disliked others, had hundreds of copies of his favorite ones made, tolerated the middling ones, and burned some of the bad ones. He would often comment that photography was part of an emerging democratic art, that its commonness, cheapness, and ease were displacing the refined image of art implicit in portrait painting. Painted portraits were for the ...
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