The Photography of Victorian Scotland - Softcover

Roddy Simpson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0748654607 ISBN 13: 9780748654604

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2012

Synopsis

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 that Scottish photography was in the vanguard of many international trends. The material has been structured and the topics organised, with appropriate illustrations, as a readable narrative and to provide a foundation text for the subject. It draws together a coherent narrative of the many different aspects of photography in Victorian Scotland. It 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. It uses the most apt illustrations to emphasise the quality of the image-making. It includes 130 illustrations.

About this title

About the Author

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.

From the Back Cover

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 its integral connection with the innovative and often adventurous society of the time.This authoritative introduction provides a wide-ranging appreciation of early Scottish photography and argues that Scottish photography was in the vanguard of many international trends artistically and technically as it moved from the complex early technology of the specialist to the mass-market.Comprehensively illustrated with photography from the period, this is the most definitive and integrated appraisal of the quality, diversity and impact of photography in Victorian Scotland.Roddy Simpson is a photographer and writer and a tutor on early Scottish photography at the University of Edinburgh. He is a respected historian of Scottish photography and contributes regularly to academic and popular publications.Front cover: Queensferry Columns, Looking Through Bridge, Evelyn Carey, 1887. Back cover: The Pastor's Visit, David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson 1845. Both © The University of Glasgow Library, Department of Special Collections.Cover design:[EUP logo]www.euppublishing.comISBN 978-0-7486-5460-4 [please add within the barcode box, at the top]Barcode

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0748654607
• ISBN 13: 9780748654604
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224