Working Light, 8: The Wandering Life of Photographer Edith S. Watson

by Frances Rooney

From the 1890s to the 1930s Edith S. Watson, self-supporting, itinerant, artistic and commercial photographer, travelled across Canada documenting the lives of rural people, frequently women, at work. Working Light is her story. From outport Newfoundland to the Queen Charlotte Islands she captured images of labouring people in the precarious, poignant, often gruelling act of building a country. Her subjects and their ways of living are gone, but Watson's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0886292735
• ISBN13: 9780886292737
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: Carleton University Press
• Length: 123 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.