Introduction to the History of Photography

James Craig Annan, 1864-1946 The Dark Mountains | Camera Work | 15 x 20.2 cm | 1904 James Craig Annan, 1864-1946 Prof. John Young of Glasgow University | Camera Work | 19.9 x 15.5 cm | 1904 James Craig Annan, 1864-1946  Gitana - Granada | Camera Work | 19.5 x 13.7 cm | 1914     JAMES CRAIG ANNAN was a master photogravure printer and a leading pictorialist photographer around the turn of the twentieth century. He produced most of his own work as well as that of others in the photogravure process, which he learned from its inventor, Karl Klíc. Annan was the son of photographer Thomas Annan, known for his early documentation of the slums of Glasgow. He joined his father's business at a young age and began assisting in studio portraiture and photographic reproductions of artwork. In 1883, he and his father traveled to Vienna to study with Klíc, T. & R. Annan and Sons of Glasgow soon became Britain's foremost gravure printing est...