Women in the Dark: Female Photographers in the US, 1850-1900 (Hardcover)

Recover the stories of long-overlooked American women who, at a time when women rarely worked outside the home, became commercial photographers and shaped the new, challenging medium. Covering two generations of photographers ranging from New York City to Californias mining districts, this study goes beyond a broad survey and explores individual careers through primary sources and new materials. Profiles of the photographers animate their careers by exploring how they began, the details of running their own studios, and their visual output. The featured photos vary in formdaguerreotype, tintype, carte de visite, and moreand subject, including Civil War portraits, postmortem photography, and landscape photography. This welcome resource fills in gaps in photographic, American, and women's history and convincingly lays out the parallels between the growth of photography as an available medium and the late-19th-century women's movement.

General

Imprint:	Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2020
Authors:	Katherine Manthorne
Dimensions:	266 x 228 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	144
ISBN-13:	978-0-7643-6016-9
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Photography & photographs > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
LSN:	0-7643-6016-7
Barcode:	9780764360169

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