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Searching for Mary Schäffer
Women Wilderness Photography
Mountain Cairns: A series on the history and culture of the Canadian Rocky Mountains
By Colleen Skidmore
Mary Schäffer was a photographer, writer, botanical painter, and mapmaker from Philadelphia, well known for her travels in the Canadian Rockies and Japan at the turn of the twentieth century. In Searching for Mary Schäffer, Colleen Skidmore takes up Schäffers own resonant themeswomen and wilderness, travel and scienceto ask new questions, tell new stories, and reassess the persona of Mary Schäffer imagined in more recent times. Public and private archival collections in the United States and Canada set the stage for this engrossing exploration of Schäffers creative, collaborative, and competitive enterprise amid the cultural complexities of Philadelphias science and photography communities, and the scientific, tourist, and Indigenous societies of the Rocky Mountains of Canada.
In this impressive book, Colleen Skidmore uses her considerable skills as a social historian of photography to shed new light on the remarkable life of Mary Schäffer. She knows the stories, the characters, and presents a social history that is fresh and convincing. Skidmores conclusion is brilliant and will certainly serve as a catalyst for further research and study of Mary Schäffer. Donna Livingstone, President and CEO, Glenbow Museum
Book details
Publication date: September 2017Features: Full colour, over 60 photographs, 4 maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, index
Series: Mountain Cairns: A series on the history and culture of the Canadian Rocky Mountains
Keywords: Photography / Womens History
Subject(s): PHOTOGRAPHY / Individual Photographers / Monographs, Photography, Travel, Biography, HISTORY / Women, PHOTOGRAPHY / History, Social & cultural history, Gender studies: women & girls, Photography / Womens History, Mountain Studies
Publisher(s): The University of Alberta Press
Book details
Publication date: September 2017Features: Full colour, over 60 photographs, 4 maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, index
Series: Mountain Cairns: A series on the history and culture of the Canadian Rocky Mountains
Keywords: Photography / Womens History
Subject(s): PHOTOGRAPHY / Individual Photographers / Monographs, Photography, Travel, Biography, HISTORY / Women, PHOTOGRAPHY / History, Social & cultural history, Gender studies: women & girls, Photography / Womens History, Mountain Studies
Publisher(s): The University of Alberta Press
Colleen Skidmore. Colleen Skidmore is a photography historian and Professor at the University of Alberta. Her research focuses on womens photographic practices and archives of women in photography in North America from 1860 to 1920. She is the editor of This Wild Spirit: Women in the Rocky Mountains of Canada (UAP).
"In her new book, Skidmore portrays Schäffer in a nuanced way by discussing the scientific and artistic communities she came from, as well as the lives of the people she travelled with. She also dissolves some of the more persistent stereotypes people use to describe Schäffer.... Readers of Skidmore's new book will better understand why Schäffer's work has moved people for so long."
Colleen Skidmore. Colleen Skidmore is a photography historian and Professor at the University of Alberta. Her research focuses on womens photographic practices and archives of women in photography in North America from 1860 to 1920. She is the editor of This Wild Spirit: Women in the Rocky Mountains of Canada (UAP).
"In her new book, Skidmore portrays Schäffer in a nuanced way by discussing the scientific and artistic communities she came from, as well as the lives of the people she travelled with. She also dissolves some of the more persistent stereotypes people use to describe Schäffer.... Readers of Skidmore's new book will better understand why Schäffer's work has moved people for so long."