| Names: | Born: James Craig Annan
Other: T. &. R. Annan & Sons
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| | Dates: | 1864 - 1946 | | Active: | Scotland | | Gender: | Male |
Scottish photographer and son of Thomas Annan. He learnt the photogravure printing process from Karl Klic and combined it with his photographic skills to produce portfolios of his Italian travels. In the 1890s he printed the photographs of David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson who were friends of his father. He was also one of the first photographers to use a hand held camera to create artistic impressions of a location and had his first one-man show at the Royal Photographic Society in 1900. He was also a member of the Linked Ring Brotherhood.Preparing biographies
Readings on, or by, individual photographers
Buchanan, William, 1984, ‘James Craig Annan: Brave Days in Glasgow‘, in Haworth-Booth, Mark (ed.), The Golden Age of British Photography 1839-1900, pp.170-173 [LL_REF:39]
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 | J. Craig Annan: A street in Toledo |
|  | J. Craig Annan: St. Martin's Bridge, Toledo |
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| Getty Research, Los Angeles, USA has an ULAN (Union List of Artists Names Online) entry for this photographer. This is useful for checking names and they frequently provide a brief biography. | | Go to website | Grove Art Online (www.groveart.com) has a biography of this artist.
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The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers. |
• Auer, Michele & Michel 1985 Encyclopedie Internationale Des Photographes de 1839 a Nos Jours / Photographers Encylopaedia International 1839 to the present (Hermance, Editions Camera Obscura) 2 volumes [A classic reference work for biographical information on photographers.]
• Beaton, Cecil & Buckland, Gail 1975 The Magic Eye: The Genius of Photography from 1839 to the Present Day (Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown & Company) p.88 [Useful short biographies with personal asides and one or more example images.]
• Capa, Cornell (ed.) 1984 The International Center of Photography: Encyclopedia of Photography (New York, Crown Publishers, Inc. - A Pound Press Book) p.30-31
• Lenman, Robin (ed.) 2005 The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (Oxford: Oxford University Press) [Includes a short biography on J. Craig Annan.]
• Witkin, Lee D. and Barbara London 1979 The Photograph Collector’s Guide (London: Secker and Warburg) p.69-70 [Long out of print but an essential reference work - the good news is that a new edition is in preparation.]
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