Rare merit : women in photography in Canada, 1840-1940 / Colleen Skidmore.

Main entry:

Skidmore, Colleen, 1957- author.

Title & Author:

Rare merit : women in photography in Canada, 1840-1940 / Colleen Skidmore.

Publication:

Vancouver, BC : UBC Press, [2022]
©2022

Description:

356 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-322) and index.
The Daguerreans, 1841-61 -- The Livernois studio, 1854-74 -- Notman's printing room, 1860-80 -- The Maynard studio, 1862-1912 -- The Moodie studio, 1895-1905 -- Travel, photography, and photojournalism, 1872-1940 -- Commercial studio photographers, 1860-1940 -- Artists and amateurs, 1890-1940.
Issued also in electronic format.

Summary:

"As Canada took shape in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, the camera was there throughout as both a witness to the colonialism, capitalism, and gendered and racialized social organization, and as a protagonist. And women across the country, whether residents or visitors, photographed people and places that were entirely new to the lens. Rare Merit examines how they did so, why their images look the way they do, and the meanings their work carries. Studio portraitists, travel documentarians, photojournalists, fine artists, hobbyists, and photographic printers make up the assembly, beginning with the arrival in Nova Scotia of North America's first professional woman photographer, the American daguerreotypist Mrs. Fletcher. Colleen Skidmore surveys the professional lives and photographs of nearly eighty women who followed her, from Lucy Maude Montgomery on Prince Edward Island to Elise Livernois in Quebec City, and from Margaret Bourke-White in the Arctic to Hannah Maynard on Vancouver Island. Why women? Why not women? Presenting the exceptional range of their work, Rare Merit proves that women's practices and images--knowingly omitted from founding narratives of photographic history--were diverse, compelling, widespread, and influential. Whenever and wherever women photographers lived, travelled, and worked, their impact undermined the status quo."-- Provided by publisher.

Biographical note:

Colleen Skidmore is a professor emerita at the University of Alberta

ISBN:

9780774867054 paperback
0774867051 paperback

Subject:

Women photographers Canada Biography.
Women photographers Canada History 19th century.
Women photographers Canada History 20th century.
Photography Canada History 19th century.
Photography Canada History 20th century.
Portrait photography Canada History 19th century.
Portrait photography Canada History 20th century.
Femmes photographes Canada Biographies.
Femmes photographes Canada Histoire 19e siècle.
Femmes photographes Canada Histoire 20e siècle.
Photographie Canada Histoire 19e siècle.
Photographie Canada Histoire 20e siècle.
Portraits (Photographie) Canada Histoire 19e siècle.
Portraits (Photographie) Canada Histoire 20e siècle.
Portrait photography
Photography
Women photographers
Canada

Form/genre:

Biographies
History

Added entries:

Women in photography in Canada, 1840-1940

Holdings:

Location: Library study room photo 315533
Call No.: TR139 S55 2022
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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