Seduced by Modernity

Devoted to life and work of Canadian-born photographer Margaret Watkins, this book tells the story of an artist in difficult circumstances whose working life spanned a Victorian upbringing in Hamilton, Ontario, and witnessing of first Soviet Five-Year Plan. It makes available Watkins' work in reproduction as part of an interdisciplinary study.A richly illustrated and vivid account of the life and work of an important Canadian modernist photographer.