{"product_id":"rare-merit-women-in-photography-in-canada-1840-1940-paperback","title":"Rare Merit: Women in Photography in Canada, 1840-1940 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eColleen Skidmore\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA compelling survey of the professional lives and historic photographs of Canadian women.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As Canada took shape in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the camera was both a witness to colonialism, capitalism, and gendered and racialized social organization, as well as an unlikely protagonist. Women across the country, whether residents or visitors, photographed people and places that were entirely new to the lens. This book examines how they did so, and the meanings their work carries. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The author surveys the professional lives and photographs of nearly eighty women--studio portraitists, travel documentarians, photojournalists, fine artists, hobbyists, and photographic printers--from Lucy Maude Montgomery on Prince Edward Island to Élise Livernois in Quebec City, and from Margaret Bourke-White in the Arctic to Hannah Maynard on Vancouver Island. Presenting the exceptional range and impact of their work, \u003ci\u003eRare Merit \u003c\/i\u003eproves that women's practices and images--knowingly omitted from founding narratives of photographic history--were diverse, compelling, widespread, and influential. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eColleen Skidmore\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor emerita at the University of Alberta, Canada. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eSearching for Mary Schäffer: Women Wilderness Photography\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e This Wild Spirit: Women in the Rocky Mountains of Canada\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 30, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42158828421255,"sku":"9780774867054","price":71.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/23ac06217694668336f300c76ea71a7e.webp?v=1733261896","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/rare-merit-women-in-photography-in-canada-1840-1940-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}