Kerry Ross, Photography for Everyone: The Cultural Lives of Cameras and Consumers in Early Twentieth-Century Japan. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015. xv + 234 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-9564-7

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  • Annemarie Sawkins

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/shashi.2020.37

Keywords:

Photography, Japan, Cultural Studies

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Author Biography

Annemarie Sawkins

Annemarie Sawkins is an independent curator, art historian and author born in Durham, England. She is currently working with two different collections of hand-colored photographs from China and Japan respectively. Her most recent exhibitions were Hidden Treasures: Art Nouveau and Arts & Crafts in our Midst (June 25–September 20, 2015) at the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum and More on Less: The History of Burlesque in America from Lydia Thompson to Amber Ray, which was at the Charles Allis Art Museum, (April 10July 5,2015). Other projects include traveling Afghan War Rugs: The Modern Art of Central Asia and Modern Rookwood. Sawkins assisted with the publication of Layton’s Legacy: A Historic American Art Collection, 1888–2013 and More Love: Art, Politics and Sharing since the 1990s for the Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. From 1999 to 2012, she was a curator at the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University, where she organized Lucinda Devlin: The Omega Suites (2010), Louise Bourgeois: Recent Works (2007), Eve Sussman: 89 Seconds at Alcazar (2005), Honoré Daumier: Political Caricaturist of the Nineteenth Century (2003), and Man Ray on Paper (2002) among other exhibitions. While at the Milwaukee Art Museum, 1997–1999, Sawkins contributed to A Renaissance Treasury: The Flagg Collection of European Decorative Arts and Sculpture (1999).  A frequent juror and portfolio reviewer, Annemarie Sawkins has a MA and PhD in Art/Architectural History from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. 

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Published

2020-09-10

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