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Women in the Dark: Female Photographers in the US, 1850–1900

Women in the Dark: Female Photographers in the US, 1850–1900

Schiffer Publishing

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Recover the stories of long-overlooked American women who, at a time when women rarely worked outside the home, became commercial photographers and shaped the new, challenging medium. Covering two generations of photographers ranging from New York City to California’s mining districts, this study goes beyond a broad survey and explores individual careers through primary sources and new materials. Profiles of the photographers animate their careers by exploring how they began, the details of running their own studios, and their visual output. The featured photos vary in form—daguerreotype, tintype, carte de visite, and more—and subject, including Civil War portraits, postmortem photography, and landscape photography. This welcome resource fills in gaps in photographic, American, and women's history and convincingly lays out the parallels between the growth of photography as an available medium and the late-19th-century women's movement.

Product Details

  • Product Type: Book, Hardcover
  • 144 pages, with 84 illustrations
  • Published in 2020
  • Shipping Dimensions: 10.5 × 9.0 × 0.6 inches  (26.7 × 22.9 × 1.5 cm)
  • Shipping Weight: 3.5 lb (56.0 oz; 1588 g)
  • SKU: SKU: SKU010004703
  • ISBN: 9780764360169

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Katherine Manthorne

About the Author

Katherine Manthorne

Katherine Manthorne is an art history professor at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and has been a visiting professor in Venice, Copenhagen, and Berlin. She writes about American landscape art and 19th-century women's contributions to art and culture.

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About the Publisher

Schiffer Publishing

Located in Chester County, Pennsylvania, Schiffer Books got its start in 1974 publishing historical reports using a mimeograph machine on the owner's kitchen table. A few years later, Schiffer moved to the basement of a barn on the family's farm property. More than 50 years later, Schiffer Publishing is still an independent publisher of 7,000 titles at the Book Farm in Atglen, PA, where visitors are welcome to browse the library.

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