
Sarah Parsons
Author
Sarah Parsons is Associate Professor of art history at York University in Toronto. She is the author of William Notman: Life & Work (Art Canada Institute, 2014) and editor of a book of essays by Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Photography After Photography: Gender, Genre, History (Duke University Press, 2017). She has written a series of essays on the transnational circulation of Canadian photographs, which have appeared in the journals British Art Studies (2020) and American Art (2023) as well as in the edited volume Cold War Camera (Duke University Press, 2022). Her current SSHRC-funded research project, Feeling Exposed: Photography, Privacy, and Visibility in Nineteenth-Century North America will culminate in a book and a co-curated exhibition at The Image Centre at Toronto Metropolitan University in 2024. She is also an editor of the journal Photography & Culture.
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Essays

William Notman turned pioneering photography into a prosperous business
By Sarah ParsonsSpotlights

William Notman makes a crowd come to life in Skating Carnival, Victoria Rink, Montreal, 1870
By Sarah Parsons
Framework of Tube and Staging Looking In, Victoria Bridge, 1859, helped launch the career of Montreal photographer William Notman
By Sarah Parsons
William Notman’s photograph St. Regis Lacrosse Club, 1867, documents a Mohawk team and a sport’s promotion
By Sarah Parsons
How William Notman’s photo Mrs. Hillard’s Dead Baby, 1868, lovingly documented loss
By Sarah Parsons