Title Thomas Annan of Glasgow : pioneer of the documentary photograph / Lionel Gossman

Published Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (x, 179 pages) : color illustrations Contents Prefatory Note and Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Paintings -- 3. Portraits -- 4. Landscapes -- 5. The Built Environment -- 6. The Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow -- 7. Epilogue -- Endnotes -- List of Illustrations -- Index of Names Summary "In the wake of Glasgow's transformation in the nineteenth-century into an industrial powerhouse -- the "Second City of the Empire"--A substantial part of the old town of Adam Smith degenerated into an overcrowded and disease-ridden slum. The Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow, Thomas Annan's photographic record of this central section of the city prior to its demolition in accordance with the City of Glasgow Improvements Act of 1866, is widely recognized as a classic of nineteenth-century documentary photography. Annan's achievement as a photographer of paintings, portraits and landscapes is less widely known. Thomas Annan of Glasgow: Pioneer of the Documentary Photograph offers a handy, comprehensive and copiously illustrated overview of the full range of the photographer's work. The book opens with a brief account of the immediate context of Annan's career as a photographer: the astonishing florescence of photography in Victorian Scotland. Successive chapters deal with each of the main fields of his activity, touching along the way on issues such as the nineteenth-century debate over the status of photography -- a mechanical practice or an artistic one? -- and the still ongoing controversies surrounding the documentary photograph in particular. While the text itself is intended for the general reader, extensive endnotes amplify particular themes and offer guidance to readers interested in pursuing them further."--Publisher's website Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Viewed on 2020-03-26 Subject Annan, Thomas, 1829-1887. Photographs of old closes, streets, &c., taken 1868-1877 Photographers -- Scotland -- History Streets -- Scotland -- Glasgow -- Pictorial works Photography -- Scotland -- Glasgow -- History Documentary photography -- Scotland -- Glasgow -- History Individual photographers. Photography and photographs. The arts. PHOTOGRAPHY -- Subjects & Themes -- Landscapes. Documentary photography Photographers Photography Streets SUBJECT Glasgow (Scotland) -- History -- Pictorial works Subject Scotland Scotland -- Glasgow Genre/Form Electronic books Biographies History Pictorial works Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book LC no. 2019452883 ISBN 1783741295 9781783741304 1783741309 9781783741311 1783741317 1783741287 9781783741281 1783741279 9781783741274 9781783741298

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