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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.

Table of 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.

Author/Creator:

Gossman, Lionel , author

Contributors:

Open Book Publishers , publisher, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Thomas Annan of Glasgow: pioneer of the documentary photograph [by Gossman, L.]

Subjects:

Annan, Thomas, 1829-1887 — Photographs of old closes, streets, &c., taken 1868-1877

Documentary photography — Scotland — Glasgow — History

Photographers — Scotland — History

Photography — Scotland — Glasgow — History

Streets — Scotland — Glasgow — Pictorial works

Glasgow (Scotland) — History — Pictorial works

Annan, Thomas, 1829-1887

Documentary photography

Photographers

Photography

Streets

Scotland — Glasgow

Scotland

Genres:

History

Pictorial works

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references in endnotes (pages 127-162) and a name index.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 182 pages) : colour illustrations.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

TR820.5 .G677 2015eb

ISBNs:

9781783741298 (pdf)
9781783741304 (epub)
9781783741311 (mobi)
9781783741274 (Paperback) [Invalid]
9781783741281 (Hardback) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

910991780

Other Control Numbers:

[Unknown Type]: xb23753572