“The Complete Craze”: Women’s Photography and Colonial Modernity in the Asia-Pacific, 1860-1930

到目前为止，还没有关于亚太地区妇女在殖民时代后期创作的摄影作品的持续研究，尽管其中许多作品在美学上是复杂和创新的。这个项目将历史研究与后殖民和性别理论相结合，批判性地检查了该地区工作的女摄影师的大量图像。它确定了使这些妇女作为一个群体接受检查的因素，调查了她们的主题、技术和风格，并确定了她们的方法中令人兴奋的、新的和传统的。它还展示了他们的艺术作品如何反映并促进了该地区蓬勃发展的现代性。

To date there has been no sustained research into the photography produced by women in the Asia-Pacific region in the late colonial era even though much of it was aesthetically sophisticated and innovative. Combining historical research with postcolonial and gender theory, this project critically examines a large body of images by women photographers working across the region. It identifies the factors enabling these women to be examined as a group, investigates their subject matter, techniques and styles, and establishes what was exciting and new, as well as conventional, about their methods. It also shows how their artworks both reflected and contributed to the region’s burgeoning modernity.