Rare Merit

Women in Photography in Canada, 1840–1940

Colleen Skidmore (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

368 Seiten

2022
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-6705-4 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Introduction

1 The Daguerreans, 1841–61

2 The Livernois Studio, 1854–74

3 Notman's Printing Room, 1860–80

4 The Maynard Studio, 1862–1912

5 The Moodie Studio, 1895–1905

6 Travel, Photography, and Photojournalism, 1872–1940

7 Commercial Studio Photographers, 1860–1940

8 Artists and Amateurs, 1890–1940

Conclusion

Notes; Selected Bibliography; List of Illustrations; Index

Erscheinungsdatum	12.05.2022
Zusatzinfo	157 photographs, 6 maps
Verlagsort	Vancouver
Sprache	englisch
Maße	191 x 254 mm
Gewicht	1060 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-7748-6705-1 / 0774867051
ISBN-13	978-0-7748-6705-4 / 9780774867054
Zustand	Neuware