Women in the Dark

Katherine Manthorne is an art history professor at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and has been a visiting professor in Venice, Copenhagen, and Berlin. She writes about American landscape art and 19th-century women's contributions to art and culture.

"A revealing portrait of early forgotten women commercial photographers in this graceful and thoughtful illustrated history . . . astute . . . This focused work brings forgotten history to life and will attract feminists and photographers alike."—Publishers Weekly