Rare merit : women in photography in Canada, 1840-1940 / Colleen Skidmore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Skidmore, Colleen, 1957- author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women photographers--Canada--Biography.

Women photographers.

Women photographers--Canada--History--19th century.

Women photographers--Canada--History--20th century.

Photography--Canada--History--19th century.

Photography.

Photography--Canada--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

356 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Vancouver, BC : UBC Press, [2022]

Summary:

"As Canada took shape in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, the camera was there throughout as both a witness to the colonialism, capitalism, and gendered and racialized social organization, and as a protagonist. And women across the country, whether residents or visitors, photographed people and places that were entirely new to the lens. Rare Merit examines how they did so, why their images look the way they do, and the meanings their work carries. Studio portraitists, travel documentarians, photojournalists, fine artists, hobbyists, and photographic printers make up the assembly, beginning with the arrival in Nova Scotia of North America's first professional woman photographer, the American daguerreotypist Mrs. Fletcher. Colleen Skidmore surveys the professional lives and photographs of nearly eighty women who followed her, from Lucy Maude Montgomery on Prince Edward Island to Elise 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 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. Whenever and wherever women photographers lived, travelled, and worked, their impact undermined the status quo."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Skidmore, Colleen, 1957- Rare merit.

ISBN:

9780774867054

0774867051

OCLC:

1276848824