Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures ix
4. Preface xvii
5. Acknowledgments xxi
6. Introduction 1
7. “Domesticated to Death”: Watkins in Hamilton 21
8. “Like a Butterfly Hitched to a Plow”:Becoming an Artist, 1909–1915 39
9. Circulating Bodies and Selves Watkins’s Studies, Portraits, and Nudes 63
10. Making Home in the Metropolis Domestic Still-Life Photography 99
11. “Strange Offerings”:Gender, Modernist Form, and the Selling of Modernity 129
12. Modernity and Magic Watkins in Europe, 1928–1931 165
13. “A Study in Brass Tacks”:Photographing in the USSR, 1933 199
14. The Imagined City Glasgow in the Thirties and Forties 229
15. Later Life and Legacy 257
16. Notes 265
17. Bibliography 299
18. Index 311