The Old Country Houses of the Old Glasgow Gentry
Author | : Glasgow Gentry |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 1870 |
Genre | : Architecture, Domestic |
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Author | : Glasgow Gentry |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 1870 |
Genre | : Architecture, Domestic |
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Author | : Amanda Maddox |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2017-05-23 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 1606065238 |
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's narrow alleys, or closes, on the verge of demolition. These haunting images, made between 1868 and 1871 and regarded as precursors of the documentary tradition in photography, represent the notion of progress that underpins much of Annan’s oeuvre. Annan’s publication 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 examples— including private albums and commercial books—that focus on subjects as varied as the city’s streets and closes, the Loch Katrine aqueduct, Glasgow College, the cathedral, and the country estates of the landed gentry, highlighting Annan’s extensive engagement with the city of Glasgow. Plates from each of these works are faithfully reproduced in full color, and an introductory essay by the leading authority on Annan surveys the life and career of this widely influential photographer.
Author | : W.H. Hill |
Publisher | : Рипол Классик |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 5876332739 |
Author | : Lionel Gossman |
Publisher | : Open Book Publishers |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2015-05-25 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 1783741279 |
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.
Author | : Thomas Martin Devine |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 554 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Glasgow (Scotland) |
ISBN | : 9780719036927 |
Author | : Micheline Nilsen |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1351556274 |
Eschewing the limiting idea that nineteenth-century architecture photography merely reflects functionality, the objective of this collection is to reflect the aesthetic, intellectual, and cultural concerns of the time. The essays hold appeal for social and cultural historians, as well as those with an interest in the fields of art history, urban geography, history of travel and tourism. Nineteenth-century photographers captured what could be seen and what they wanted to be seen. Their images informed of exploration, progress, heritage, and destruction. Architecture was a staple subject for the first generation of photographers as it patiently tolerated the long exposures of the early processes. During its formative decades photography responded to evolutionary cultural forces of market and artistic production. Photographs of architecture reflected a specific political or social context modulated through individual points of view. For this reason, the examination of each photographic image as a primary visual document and an aesthetic object rather than a technical milestone on a chronological trajectory affords a richer multi-faceted approach to the extensive and complex corpus of photographs taken by photographers all over the world. This project acknowledges the importance of technique in the early decades of photography but focuses on the thematic content of the material. It places the photography of architecture in an international context under the contemporary critical lens sharpened by theoretical and cultural examinations of the topic.
Author | : Scottish History Society |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : Scotland |
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