100 Great Photographs

A Collection by Bruce Bernard

10 July 2003 to 7 September 2003

Dean Gallery, Edinburgh

Dean Gallery is close to the West End of Edinburgh.  It is situated in attractive grounds and is served by a free bus service that links the four National Gallery of Scotland sites in the centre of Edinburgh. 

Dean Gallery is currently hosting two exhibitions, an exhibition of paintings by Winifred Nicolson and a photographic exhibition titled 100 Great Photographs.

Admission £3.50
[combined ticket allowing admission to both exhibitions]

The photographs were selected by the press photographer, Bruce Bernard.

These date from Talbot in the 1840s to recent work.  Many of the images are by significant photographers; a few are snapshots by unknown photographers.

The captions to the photos give good background information.  A book of the exhibition, reproducing both the photos and the captions, has been produced.
[Published by Phaidon, 2000    ISBN 0-7148-4278-8]

 

Photographs in the Exhibition

The following are of local interest to Edinburgh:

Hill & Adamson

Jeanie Wilson, a Newhaven Fishwife, 1843-1847.

This was one of a series of images produced by Hill & Adamson for their book, The Fishermen and Women of the Firth of Forth, which they planned but never published.

Horatio Ross

Dead Stag in a Snowy Landscape  c.1858

An albumen-silver print from a wet collodion glass negative - typical of Horatio Ross' work.

An attractive salted paper print from a wet collodion glass negative.

The subject: a view of St John's Church at the West End of  Princes Street, Edinburgh.

Horatio Ross [1801-1886] was a prominent member of the Photographic Society of Scotland from 1856.

Thomas Annan

A carbon print of the old buildings of Glasgow in 1868, before being demolished as a result of the Glasgow City Improvement Act (1866).

Robert MacPherson

Robert MacPherson travelled to Rome from Edinburgh.

The exhibition includes an impressive large albumen-silver print from a wet collodion glass negative. 

The subject: a view of the Italian Campagna.

 

Other photographs of from the early days of photography include work by Count Olympe Aguado who invented the carte de visite and AAE Disderi, who patented it.

Other Exhibitions in 2003

 

 

 

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