Women Photographers of the Pacific World, 1857-1930

ISBN-13: 9781032174655 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 348 str.

Anne Maxwell

Opis

This book examines the lives and works of 12 women photographers working in the Pacific Rim settler territories from 1857–1930. It examines their artistic methods, how they coped in a male-dominated profession and portrayed indigenous peoples and the landscape.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  Part One: The First Settler Women Photographers  Introduction to Part One  2. Elizabeth Withington, Pioneering Professional  3. Mrs Rudolph’s Gallery  4. The Māori Portraits of Elizabeth Pulman  Part Two: Women Photographers of the Late Nineteenth Century  Introduction to Part Two  5. The Imaginative World of Hannah Maynard  6. The Stylish Portraits of Abigail Cardozo  7. Margaret White’s Challenge to Settler Colonialism  Part Three: Ethnographic Pictorialists, 1903-1930  Introduction to Part Three  8. Celebrating Racial Hybridity: Caroline Gurrey’s Portraits of Hawai’ian Children  9. Laura Adams Armer in Navajo Land  10. Emma Freeman: Between Romance and Ethnography  Part Four: The Persistence of Pictorialism  Introduction to Part Four  11. The Celebrity Portraits of May and Mina Moore  12. Anne Brigman and the Power of Creativity  13. Una Garlick and the New Zealand Picturesque  14. Conclusion: Histories, Canons and Legacies

O autorze

Anne Maxwell is Associate Professor in the English and Theatre Program in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. She has published numerous articles and essays on colonial and postcolonial literature and colonial photography. Her other books are Colonial Photography and Exhibitions (2000), Picture Imperfect: Photography and Eugenics (2008) and Shifting Focus: Colonial Australian Photography, 1860-1920 (2015).