Rare Merit

Women in Photography in Canada, 1840–1940

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

Rare Merit is a beautifully illustrated and astute examination of women photographers in Canada as it took shape in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Throughout, the camera was both a witness to the colonialism, capitalism, and gendered and racialized social organization, and a protagonist. And women across the country, whether residents or visitors, captured people and places that were entirely new to the lens. This book shows how they did so, and the meaning their work carries.Colleen Skidmore surveys the professional lives and photographs of nearly eighty women – studio portraitists, travel documentarians, photojournalists, fine artists, hobbyists, and photographic printers – from Lucy Maude Montgomery on Prince Edward Island to Élise Livernois in Quebec City, and from Margaret Bourke-White in the Arctic to Hannah Maynard on Vancouver Island.Why women? Why not women? Presenting the exceptional range and impact of their work, Rare Merit proves that women's practices and images – knowingly omitted from founding narratives of photographic history – were diverse, compelling, widespread, and influential.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-06-01
Mått:191 x 254 x 33 mm
Vikt:1 060 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:368
Förlag:University of British Columbia Press
ISBN:9780774867054
Utmärkelser:Joint winner of AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show: Scholarly Illustrated 2023 (United States)

Utforska kategorier

Konsthistoria inom Kultur
Fotoböcker inom Kultur
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Colleen Skidmore is a professor emerita at the University of Alberta. She is the author of Searching for Mary Schäffer: Women Wilderness Photography and This Wild Spirit: Women in the Rocky Mountains of Canada, which was adapted as a CBC Radio Alberta series and an exhibition. Her interdisciplinary research on early photography has appeared in journals as wide ranging as History of Photography, Social History/Histoire sociale, Journal of Canadian Art History, and Journal of Canadian Studies. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia.

Recensioner i media

"Fletcher's story opens Rare Merit and skillfully articulates Skidmore's main thesis: women's histories are central to the medium, and women played a significant role in the development of Canadian photography."- Siobhan Angus (Technology and Culture, vol. 64. no. 4)

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction1 The Daguerreans, 1841–612 The Livernois Studio, 1854–743 Notman's Printing Room, 1860–804 The Maynard Studio, 1862–19125 The Moodie Studio, 1895–19056 Travel, Photography, and Photojournalism, 1872–19407 Commercial Studio Photographers, 1860–19408 Artists and Amateurs, 1890–1940ConclusionNotes; Selected Bibliography; List of Illustrations; Index