Still Life – Bathtub, New York, 1919
“Canadian photographer Margaret Watkins rejected traditional gender roles to become a pioneering modernist photographer with Renaissance flair. ... Still Life – Bathtub, New York, 1919. Watkins’ world, like many women at the time, was that of the interior, the home. Watkins had the ability to see it as a pretext for inventing new forms. ... Untitled, Glasgow, 1928-1938. Watkins moved to Glasgow, the city her parents had left to emigrate to Canada, in 1928. The last series of photographs she took was of the city’s building sites. ...”
Untitled, Glasgow, 1928-1938.
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