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Seduced by modernity : the photography of Margaret Watkins / Mary O'Connor and Katherine Tweedie.

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Seduced by Modernity is the first book devoted to the life and work of Canadian-born modernist photographer Margaret Watkins. Best known for art and advertising photography executed in New York in the 1920s, Watkins was active in the Clarence White school of photography and a participant in the shif...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Authors: O'Connor, Mary Elizabeth, 1947- (Author), Tweedie, Katherine (Author)
Other title:Photography of Margaret Watkins
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2007]
Subjects:
Watkins, Margaret, > 1884-1969.
Watkins, Margaret, > 1884-1969 > Criticism and interpretation.
Women photographers > Canada > Biography.
Photography, Artistic > History and criticism.
Photography, Artistic > History.
Photography, Artistic.
Women photographers.
Canada.
Biographies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Domesticated to death" : Watkins in Hamilton
  • "Like a butterfly hitched to a plow" : becoming an artist, 1909-1915
  • Circulating bodies and selves : Watkins's studies, portraits, and nudes
  • Making home in the metropolis : domestic still-life photography
  • "Strange offerings" : gender, modernist form, and the selling of modernity
  • Modernity and magic : Watkins in Europe, 1928-1931
  • "A study in brass tacks" : photographing in the USSR, 1933
  • The imagined city : Glasgow in the thirties and forties
  • Later life and legacy.

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