Description:
Australian Women's Historical Photography: Other Times, Other Views focuses on the works of six Australian women who were working as photographers in the period 1850-1950. It critically examines their works against the historical backdrop of settler violence towards Indigenous Australians, the First Women's Movement, the Great War of 1914-1918, Australia's imperial occupation of New Guinea, the final years of Chinese Nationalist Party rule in China and debates about photography's status as an art form.
Review Quotes:
'A deep dive into the work of six women practitioners, this book adds some much-needed texture and nuance to the existing history of Australian photography. Ranging from professional portraits to personal snapshots, the many photographs reproduced in Other Times, Other Views document what its authors call an "idiosyncratic life cycle" for the women who made them, providing significant insights not only into Australia's past but also an opportunity for reflection on that nation's present, and even its possible futures.'-- Geoffrey Batchen, Professor of History of Art, University of Oxford