Australian Women¿s Historical Photography

Australian Women¿s Historical Photography: Other Times, Other Views examines the works of six women photographers 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 rise of anti-Western sentiment in China and debates about photography¿s status as an art form. Women¿s works from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have been down-played or even ignored in existing accounts of Australia¿s cultural history, and this study is aimed at rectifying this situation. At the same time, the book demonstrates why amateur works are just as important as commercial works to our understanding of the past.