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Thomas Annan - Photographer of Glasgow
Amanda Maddox
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Description for Thomas Annan - Photographer of Glasgow
Hardback. Annan's history serves as the organizing principle for this book, which considers both the breadth of his body of work as well as the multiple formats in which his photographs appeared and circulated. Featured here are seven examplesincluding private albums and commercial booksthat focus on subjects as varied as the city's streets and closes. Num Pages: 180 pages, 177 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
Thomas Annan (1829-1887) was the preeminent photographer of Glasgow in the mid-nineteenth century, a period when the rise in industry and population dramatically altered the landscape of the second city of the British Empire. Often working in conjunction with civic projects, Annan produced numerous series that underscore the transformation of the city and its environs, though he remains best known for one series in particular: a group of enigmatic photographs of central Glasgow alleys, or closes, on the verge of demolition. These haunting images, made between 1868 and 1871, and sometimes regarded as precursors of the ... Read more
Thomas Annan (1829-1887) was the preeminent photographer of Glasgow in the mid-nineteenth century, a period when the rise in industry and population dramatically altered the landscape of the second city of the British Empire. Often working in conjunction with civic projects, Annan produced numerous series that underscore the transformation of the city and its environs, though he remains best known for one series in particular: a group of enigmatic photographs of central Glasgow alleys, or closes, on the verge of demolition. These haunting images, made between 1868 and 1871, and sometimes regarded as precursors of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Getty Trust Publications
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
665g
Number of Pages
180
Place of Publication
Los Angeles, United States
ISBN
9781606065235
SKU
V9781606065235
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99-15
About Amanda Maddox
Amanda Maddox is assistant curator in the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum. She is the author of Ishiuchi Miyako: Postwar Shadows (Getty Publications, 2015). Sara Stevenson is an independent curator/historian specializing in Scottish photography and senior research fellow at the University of Glasgow. She is a former guest scholar in the Department of Photographs at the ... Read more
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