Sarmad Magazine Book Four - "Amateur Photography", a Gender-based Construct from the New Woman to the Wife

The role of women in relation to the photography industry land particularly the notion and business of amateur photography) goes through fundamental changes during the first half of the 20th century. Through a dazzling cycle, it starts from the supposedly progressive idea of catering to the new independent woman of the new century who leaves the domestic realm "raveling" freely on her own), back to the conventional gender norms focusing on wife-who uses the camera to record family memories, the interiors of home, her children and her pels. New Woman turns into Wife and the "outdoors" to "home". This is the opening publication in a series of books at Sarmad Magazine, which investigates the development of photography, both as an industry and a medium of fine arts, in relation to gender assumptions. Given the complexity and broadness of the subject, this book aims to give an overview and to argue for the relevance and necessily of such work. This book lies in the context of a larger ongoing project, Unmaking Image, at Sarmad Magazine which deals with the relationship beiween image making and power.