03766 am 22006853u 450 991015625640332120221206093935.01-78374-130-92-8218-7615-71-78374-129-5(CKB)3710000000433268(MiAaPQ)EBC3440246(FrMaCLE)OB-obp-2540(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/38167(PPN)198367546(EXLCZ)99371000000043326820150624h20152015 uy 0engurmn#||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThomas Annan of Glasgow pioneer of the documentary photograph /Lionel GossmanOpen Book Publishers2015Cambridge, England :Open Book Publishers,2015.©20151 online resource (194 pages) illustrations (some color), photographs; digital, PDF file(s)Includes index.1-78374-128-7 1-78374-127-9 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.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.StreetsScotlandGlasgowPictorial worksPhotographersScotlandHistoryPhotographyScotlandGlasgowHistoryDocumentary photographyScotlandGlasgowHistoryGlasgow (Scotland)HistoryPictorial worksphotographyvictorian scotlandglasgowportraitsthomas annandocumentarylandscapesEdinburghLoch KatrineLondonStreetsPhotographersHistory.PhotographyHistory.Documentary photographyHistory.779.99141443Gossman Lionel213055MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910156256403321Thomas Annan of Glasgow2083225UNINA