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...

    Robert Demachy "In Brittany", 1904 From: Camera Work, No 5 1904 Robert Demachy "Toucques Valley", 1906 from: Camera Work. No 16 1906 Robert Demachy Dancer, c. 1909 Robert Demachy Academie,  1900     Robert Demachy Struggle, 1904

Clarence H. White The Ring Toss , 1899 Clarence H. White Drops of Rain, 1903 Clarence H. White, Boy with Wagon, 1898 from: Camera Work, No 23, 1908

Advertisement for the Photo-Secession and the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession,  designed by Edward Steichen. Published in Camera Work no. 13, 1906 The following notice appeared in Camera Work, no. 3, Supplement, July 1903 The Photo-Secession     "So many are the enquiries as to the nature and aims of the Photo- Secession and requirements of eligibility to membership therein, that we deem it expedient to give a brief résumé of the character of this body of photographers.     The object of the Photo-Secession is: to advance photography as applied to pictorial expression; to draw together those Americans practicing or otherwise interested in the art, and to hold from time to time, at varying places, exhibitions not necessarily limited to the productions of the Photo-Secession or to American work.     It consists of a Council (all of whom are Fellows); Fellows chosen by the Council for meritorious photographic work or labors in...

Fading Away, 1858 Henry Peach Robinson, Carolling, 1890. Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington. When the Day's Work is Done , 1877 The Lady of Shalott by Henry Peach Robinson (1830-1901). 1861. Albumen print from two negatives, 12 x 10 in. (30.4 x 50.8 cm.). Unsigned. The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas (ace. no.964:057:068) Helmut Gernscheim Collection. Ophellia by Sir John Everett Millais, 1852