1st Edition

Women Photographers of the Pacific World, 1857–1930

By Anne Maxwell Copyright 2020
348 Pages 60 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

348 Pages 60 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

348 Pages 60 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This is the first book to examine the lives and works of women photographers active in the settler colonial nations of the Pacific Rim from 1857–1930. The few histories of women’s photography that have been written so far have been confined to developments in Britain, France, Germany and the USA, and have overwhelmingly focused on artistic photography, ignoring the whole area of commercial... Read more

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 Maori 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

Biography

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).