Women photographers of the Pacific world, 1857-1930:

"This is the first book to examine the lives and works of women photographers active in the settler colonial nations of the Pacific Rim from 1857-1930. The few histories of women's photography that have been written so far have been confined to developments in Britain, France, Germany and...

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1. Verfasser: Maxwell, Anne 1951- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2020
Schriftenreihe:Routledge studies in cultural history
Routledge studies in cultural history 85
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Zusammenfassung:"This is the first book to examine the lives and works of women photographers active in the settler colonial nations of the Pacific Rim from 1857-1930. The few histories of women's photography that have been written so far have been confined to developments in Britain, France, Germany and the USA, and have overwhelmingly focused on artistic photography, ignoring the whole area of commercial photography. Taking 12 case studies as representative of the many women who entered the profession between 1857 and 1930, this book deals with both early 20th-century artistic and ethnographic photography in the region and 19th-century commercial photography. In addition to asking how female photographers coped with the pressure of being women in a male-dominated profession, what was new about the techniques and methods they deployed, and the kinds of artistic visions they brought to bear on their subjects, it breaks new ground by asking how they responded as photographers to the on-going decimation and displacement of indigenous peoples as white settlement and capitalism became ever more entrenched across the new world territories of the Pacific Rim, and photography more influenced by the international art movements of Pictorialism and Modernism"--
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 01, 2020)
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xii, 334 pages) illustrations
ISBN:9781000036503
1000036502
9780429295423
0429295421
9781000036480
1000036480
9781000036497
1000036499

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