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

Main entry:

Gossman, Lionel.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers, [2015]
©2015

Description:

x, 179 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references in endnotes (pages 127-162) and a name index.
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.

ISBN:

9781783741281 hardback
1783741287 hardback
9781783741274 paperback
1783741279 paperback
PDF
9781783741298
PDF
1783741295
epub
9781783741304
epub
1783741309
mobi
9781783741311
mobi
1783741317

Subject:

Annan, Thomas, 1829-1887.
Annan, Thomas, -1887
Photographers Scotland History.
Streets Scotland Glasgow Pictorial works.
Photography Scotland Glasgow History.
Documentary photography Scotland Glasgow History.
Photographes Écosse Histoire.
Rues Écosse Glasgow Ouvrages illustrés.
Photographie Écosse Glasgow Histoire.
Photographie documentaire Écosse Glasgow Histoire.
Documentary photography.
Photographers.
Photography.
Streets.
Glasgow (Scotland) History Pictorial works.
Scotland.
Scotland Glasgow.

Form/genre:

History.
Pictorial works.
Case bindings (Binding) England Cambridge 21st century.

Added entries:

Open Book Publishers.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room photo 290433
Call No.: TR140.A613 G6 2015
Status: Available

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