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MCKEGGIE, Mary Elizabeth
- Born
- Toronto, Ontario, 1863?
- Died
- Toronto, Ontario, 1925?
- Biography synopsis
- McKeggie (nee Blackstock) was an amateur photographer and was among the first women admitted to the Toronto Camera Club in 1902; she remained a member for a number of years. She showed promise as a pictorialist and also developed proficiency as a portraitist. In the 1902 annual exhibition of the club her work of a young woman in Egyptian costumer was recognized. In 1908 her work appeared in Photograms of the Year.
- Media used
- Photography
- Memberships
- Toronto Camera Club
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- Photograms of the Year. London: Dawbarn & Ward, 1908
- The Professional and Amateur Photographer. 7 (1902): 178
- Close, Susan. Framing Identity: Social Practices of Photography in Canada (1880-1920) Amsterdam: Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (PhD dissertation), 2005
http://hdl.handle.net/11245/1.243568 - Koltun, Lilly, ed. Private Realms of Light: Amateur Photography in Canada 1839-1940 Markham, Ontario: Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1984
