Images of hunting have been charged with socio-economic issues and highly visible performances of gender for as long as they have existed. But technological innovations (in particular the popularization of film and digital photography) have transformed the relationship between class and gender that characterizes such images and their creators in some unexpected ways.

How do we get from here

Royal Hunt, North Palace of Ashurbanipal, British Museum

to here

A Shooting Party, Edith H. Lowber, BMC 2009.23.7

from which this is but a small step:

Howard Family Hunt, Racine WI, 11/23/2003