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The Photography of Victorian Scotland
Roddy Simpson
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Description for The Photography of Victorian Scotland
Hardcover. Gives an appraisal of the quality, diversity and impact of photography in Victorian Scotland. This book shows how photography was related to, and was influenced by, the society and culture of the time. It highlights how Scotland and Scots were in the forefront of photography in Victorian times. Num Pages: 224 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 3JH; AJ; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 166 x 15. Weight in Grams: 512.
This is an appraisal of the quality, diversity and impact of photography in Victorian Scotland. This is the first book to provide a full and coherent introduction to the photography of Victorian Scotland. There are many books which deal with particular elements and individual photographers, which show the interest in the subject, but no book draws everything together to provide an understanding of the multi-faceted nature of photography and the inter-relationship with other activities in the society of the time. This authoritative introduction, building upon these other publications, will provide a wide-ranging appreciation of early Scottish photography and in particular ... Read more
This is an appraisal of the quality, diversity and impact of photography in Victorian Scotland. This is the first book to provide a full and coherent introduction to the photography of Victorian Scotland. There are many books which deal with particular elements and individual photographers, which show the interest in the subject, but no book draws everything together to provide an understanding of the multi-faceted nature of photography and the inter-relationship with other activities in the society of the time. This authoritative introduction, building upon these other publications, will provide a wide-ranging appreciation of early Scottish photography and in particular ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748654611
SKU
V9780748654611
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Ref
99-5
About Roddy Simpson
Roderick Simpson is a photographer, writer, researcher and lecturer who specialises in early Scottish photography. He is a tutor of Scottish Victorian Photography at the University of Edinburgh Open Studies and a freelance photography researcher for the University of Glasgow Library.
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