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Women Photographers of the Pacific World, 1857-1930 (Paperback)
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Women Photographers of the Pacific World, 1857-1930 (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
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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.
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