这是第一本研究1857-1930年间活跃在环太平洋殖民地定居者国家的女性摄影师的生活和作品的书。迄今为止，为数不多的女性摄影史仅限于英国、法国、德国和美国的发展，而且绝大多数集中在艺术摄影上，而忽略了商业摄影的整个领域。本书以12个案例研究为代表，介绍了1857年至1930年间进入这一行业的许多女性，涉及该地区20世纪早期的艺术和人种学摄影，以及19世纪的商业摄影。除了询问女性摄影师如何应对女性在男性主导的职业中所面临的压力，她们运用的技术和方法以及她们为拍摄对象带来的各种艺术视角有哪些新的方面，它开辟了一个新领域，询问作为摄影师，随着白人聚居地和资本主义在环太平洋地区的新世界领土上变得越来越根深蒂固，以及摄影越来越受到象形主义和现代主义国际艺术运动的影响，他们对土著民族不断遭到屠杀和流离失所的反应。
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Women Photographers of the Pacific World, 1857–1930
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 photography. Taking 12 case studies as representative of the many women who entered the profession between 1857 and 1930, this book deals with both early 20th-century artistic and ethnographic photography in the region and 19th-century commercial photography. In addition to asking how female photographers coped with the pressure of being women in a male-dominated profession, what was new about the techniques and methods they deployed, and the kinds of artistic visions they brought to bear on their subjects, it breaks new ground by asking how they responded as photographers to the on-going decimation and displacement of indigenous peoples as white settlement and capitalism became ever more entrenched across the new world territories of the Pacific Rim, and photography more influenced by the international art movements of Pictorialism and Modernism.
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