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Art Photography James Craig Annan |
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The Linked Ring - The Linked Ring was a brotherhood of Art Photographers, led by Henry Peach Robinson (an exhibitor in early PSS Exhibitions). - The Linked Ring broke away from the RPS in 1892, because they believed the RPS was becoming too dominated by the science of photography. - Its members included Frank Meadow Sutcliffe, Alfred Stieglitz and the Glasgow photographer, James Craig Annan. - The Linked Ring was succeeded by the London Salon, which held its first exhibition in 1910. |
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Photogravures - Hill & Adamson James Craig Annan revived interest in the Hill & Adamson calotypes by making photogravure prints from their work. Some of these gravures were published by Alfred Steiglitz in 'Camera Works' in 1905, 1909 and 1912. |
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Photogravures - Thomas Annan In the late 1860s, James Craig Annan's father, Thomas Annan, had taken a set of photos of the Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow, recording the housing conditions in the city at the time. - Thomas Annan had published these as albumen prints in 1871. - They had been published as carbon prints in 1877. - James Craig Annan then made a set of photogravure prints from these images. They were published by T & R Annan in 1900. |
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The Process Photogravure is a photomechanical process. Printing plates are etched from photographic images. This process can produce high quality prints in large quantities. |
Photogravure
© Reproduced with acknowledgement to Fine Art Dealer Paul Cava
Photogravure
© Reproduced with acknowledgement to Fine Art Dealer Paul Cava
Photogravure
© Reproduced with acknowledgement to Fine Art Dealer Paul Cava
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Popular Photography |
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Photography for amateurs became more popular in the 1890s. Eastman Co - Regular Kodet camera - 1890s
© Reproduced by courtesy of Edinburgh Photographic Society
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Sizes of Photo By 1920s, there were many different sizes of photo, from film, and enlargements. Film from early 1900s: 120 film: 2.25 ins x 2.25 ins 120 film: 3.25 ins x 2 1/4 ins 127 film: 1.625 ins x 1.625 ins Postcards 5.25 ins x 3.25 ins |
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Processes - Early 1900s |
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Processes included:
- Bromoil (from 1910)
Photos can sometimes look like old etchings. - Platinum (1870s to 1914) - Palladium (from 1920s) similar process and results, but cheaper |
Bromoil
Dunure Castle, Ayrshire - J M Whitehead
© Reproduced with acknowledgement to Ed Romney
Platinotype
Black & White 73, Leith Street, Edinburgh
© Copyright: For permission to reproduce, please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk
© Copyright: For permission to reproduce, please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk
Platinotype
D & W Prophet - Dundee + St Andrew Square, Edinburgh
© please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk
Platinotype
Yerbury - Churchill, Edinburgh
© please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk
Platinotype
Yerbury - Churchill, Edinburgh
© please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk
© please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk
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Larger Format Glass Plates in Early 1900s |
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The old glass plate sizes were still available. Half plate and quarter plate negatives and photographic paper were slightly different sizes. Whole Plate: 8.5 ins x 6.5 ins Half Plate: 6.5 ins x 4.25 ins Quarter Plate : 4.25 ins x 3.25 ins |
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Plates, Negatives, Prints |
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© Copyright: Peter Stubbs - please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk
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St Leonard's Photos
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1920s
Where is it?
© Reproduced with acknowledgement to David Gordon, Old Town, Edinburgh
1920s
Where is it?
© Reproduced with acknowledgement to David Gordon, Old Town, Edinburgh
1920s
Pleasance
© Reproduced with acknowledgement to David Gordon, Old Town, Edinburgh
1920s
Pleasance
© Reproduced with acknowledgement to David Gordon, Old Town, Edinburgh
1920s
Pleasance
© Reproduced with acknowledgement to David Gordon, Old Town, Edinburgh
Early-November 1927
East Crosscauseway
Around Edinburgh
Photographers Not Known
Leith Docks Demonstration - The Shore, Leith, 1913
© Reproduced with acknowledgement to the Pilton Elderly Project group that who compiled an exhibition of old photos of Granton.
Tram 116 in Princes Street
© Reproduced by courtesy Lothian Buses plc
Princes Street - Electric and Cable Cars
© Reproduced by courtesy Lothian Buses plc
Register House - viewed from North Bridge
© Reproduced by courtesy Lothian Buses plc
Coronation Coal Lorry - St Leonard's - May 12, 1937
© Reproduced with acknowledgement to Ron Leckie, California, USA
School Classes
Milton Street School - Around 1895
© Reproduced with acknowledgement to Ron Leckie, California, USA
Probably Drummond Street School, Edinburgh - Around 1900
© Reproduced with acknowledgement to David Lines
Dr Bell's School - Around 1920
© Reproduced with acknowledgement to John Stewart, Livingston, West Lothian [Photographer not known]
Milton Street Schools - Late 1920s
© Reproduced with acknowledgement to Graham Ferguson, Saudi Arabia
Tug-of-War Team
Leith Docks - Tug-of-War Team - around 1900
© Reproduced with acknowledgement to David J Scott, Haddington, East Lothian, grandson of Dave Scott, top-left in the picture.
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