Wilks, Claire Weissman, 1933-2017.

The magic box : the eccentric genius of Hannah Maynard / Claire Weissman Wilks.

Toronto : Exile Editions, [1980]
©1980

149 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 31 cm

"Hannah Maynard...established her own Photographic Gallery in the colonial town of Victoria, British Columbia, in the early 1860s... [Her] photographs, however, are interesting for more than historical reasons. She experimented with every new photographic technique and was not only in the vanguard of experimentalism, but she developed a vision that was surreal and unique, unmatched in its aesthetic inerest until the 1920s... When her work is combined with that of her husband's, as it is in this book, the result is a rare record of a time, a place, and a unique vision, the vision of a Canadian genius"--from front jacket flap.

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Maynard, Hannah.
Maynard, Hannah, 1834-1918.
Maynard, Richard, ca 1832-1907.
Photography, Artistic 19th century Pictorial works.
Photography, Artistic 20th century Pictorial works.
Portrait photography 19th century Pictorial works.
Portrait photography 20th century Pictorial works.
Photography, Artistic.
Photographers British Columbia Victoria Biography.
Photographie artistique.
Photographes Colombie-Britannique Victoria Biographies.
Photographie artistique 19e siècle Ouvrages illustrés.
Photographie artistique 20e siècle Ouvrages illustrés.
Portraits (Photographie) 19e siècle Ouvrages illustrés.
Portraits (Photographie) 20e siècle Ouvrages illustrés.
art photography.
Photographers
Portrait photography
British Columbia Victoria

Biographies
Pictorial works

Location: Library main canada 201933
Call No.: TR140.M471 W5 1980
Status: Available