Kerry Ross is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at DePaul University.

"Ross's Photography for Everyone is a must-read for anyone interested in the impact of industry and the adoption of state-of-the-art technology by everyday Japanese consumers at the dawn of the twentieth century. It is also relevant to historians of photography, as it opens windows into the development of the photographic industry, and its understanding (and even grooming) of its consumers into gendered, technologically advanced, and democratic participants in the production of visual culture in the first decades of the twentieth century."—Celio H. Barreto, H-Japan --- "Kerry Ross uses the rise of amateur photography in Japan before World War II to explore the meaning of 'serious leisure' in a non-Western setting, and her work is a welcome contribution to understanding how members of the urban middle class chose to spend their free time. Her analyses of gender, how-to literature, voluntary associations, and aesthetics expand and enrich the growing field of leisure studies."—Steven Gelber, Santa Clara University --- "Photography for Everyone provides thought-provoking analysis of the commercial and cultural forces that shaped amateur photography, adding much to our understanding of complex and sometimes competing photographic practices that developed in Japan in the 1920s and 1930s."––Kari Sheperdson-Scott, Pacific Affairs --- "This study is highly original and provides a much needed account of prewar Japanese photography as a modernity-making social formation. The research opens up whole new worlds to historians of Japanese culture, commerce, gender, everyday life, and even nationalism/democracy."—Paul D. Barclay, Associate Professor of History, Lafayette College --- "Kerry Ross uses amateur photography splendidly as a lens on the emergence of dynamic consumer cultures in Japan before World War II. Gender, marketing, aesthetics, work and leisure, and 'middlebrow' aesthetics all enter the picture—making for a major contribution to our growing appreciation of early 20th-century modernity."—John W. Dower, MIT