She 'shot' Her Way To Success: How China's Empress Dowager Ci Xi Launched A Photographer's Trailblazing Career

Socialite. Navy wife. Mother of two. Patricia O'Meara Robbins. Beginning in 1933, at the age of 22, when she found herself in old imperialChina, Pat Robbins blazed a trail for other female photographers who wouldfollow her. She documented the pre-war Orient and the U.S. Asiatic Fleet; theaftermath of Pearl Harbor; movie celebrities and high society in Hollywood's"Golden Age"; postwar Europe and occupied Germany; and the mid-centuryWashington scene. This lavishly illustrated personal history traces the career, lifeand times of a bold, creative woman, ahead of her time in many ways.

• | Author: Wilbur D. Jones, Jr., Carroll Robbins Jones
• | Publisher: Wilbur Jones Compositions Llc
• | Publication Date: Sep 07, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 152 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0998073504
• | ISBN-13: 9780998073507