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Margaret Watkins
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Margaret Watkins (1884–1969) was a Canadian photographer who is remembered for her innovative contributions to advertising photography.[1] She was also a pioneering modernist photographer; her still-life images of household objects arranged in compositions influenced by abstract art were highly innovative and influential.[2]
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She lived a life of rebellion, rejection of tradition, and individual heroism; she never married, she was a successful career woman in a time when women stayed at home, and she exhibited eroticism and feminism in her art and writing.[3]