She ‘Shot’ Her Way to Success : How China’s Empress Dowager Ci Xi Launched a Photographer’s Trailblazing Career

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Debutante, wife, mother, trailblazing freelance photographer: Patricia O’Meara Robbins was one of a kind, making her own way through the turbulent world of the mid-twentieth century from China through Pearl Harbor, Hollywood and post-war Europe. Beginning in 1933, at the age of 22, when she found herself in old imperial China, Pat Robbins blazed a trail for other female photographers who would follow her. She documented the pre-war Orient and the U.S. Asiatic Fleet; the aftermath of Parl Harbor; Los Angeles high society in Hollywood’s “Golden Age”; postwar Europe and occupied Germany; and the mid-century Washington scene. This lavishly illustrated personal history traces the life, times, career and family of a bold, creative woman, ahead of her time in many ways.

• Paperback: 152 pages
• Publisher: Wilbur Jones Compositions LLC; 1 edition (September 7, 2016)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0998073504
• ISBN-13: 978-0998073507
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 0.4 x 11 inches