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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.
Mary Schaffer was a photographer, writer, and cartographer from
Philadelphia, well known for her work in the Canadian Rockies at
the turn of the twentieth century. Colleen Skidmore's engrossing
study asks new questions, tells new stories, and introduces women
and men with whom Schaffer interacted and collaborated. It argues
for new ways of thinking about the significance and impact of
Schaffer's work on historical and contemporary conceptions of
women's experiences in histories and societies in which gender is
fundamental to the distribution of power. Scholars and readers of
women's photography and writing histories, as well as wilderness
and mountain studies, will make new discoveries in Searching for
Mary Schaffer.
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