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Author Lee, Anthony W., 1960- author.

Title The global flows of early Scottish photography : encounters in Scotland, Canada, and China / Anthony W. Lee.

Publication Info. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history
McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents At the shoreline of the fisherfolk -- Wilderness of one's own -- Upriver and down.
Summary "Almost immediately after the invention of photography, Scottish photographers took their clunky cameras on the road to capture the stories of peoples and communities touched by the forces of British imperialism. For the next thirty years, their journeys would take them far from their homes in the Lowlands to the Canadian wilderness and the treaty ports and rivers of China. The Global Flows of Early Scottish Photography is about the interplay between these photographers' ambitions and the needs and desires of the people they met. Anthony Lee tracks the work of several famous innovators of the art form, including the pioneering team of D.O. Hill and Robert Adamson in Edinburgh; Canada's first great photographers, the Scottish immigrants William Notman and Alexander Henderson in Montreal; the globetrotting John Thomson in Hong Kong; and Lai Afong, the first widely known Chinese photographer. Lee reveals their pictures in the context of migration and the social impact wrought by worldwide trade and competing nationalisms. A timely book, it tells of an era when cameras emerged to give shape and meaning to some of the nineteenth century's most defining moments brought about by globalization. Beautifully written and richly illustrated in full colour, The Global Flows of Early Scottish Photography weaves stories together to show that even the earliest pictures were sites of fierce historical struggle."-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Photography -- Scotland -- History -- 19th century.
Photography.
Scotland.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Photographers -- Scotland -- History -- 19th century.
Photographers.
Photography -- Technique -- History -- 19th century.
Photography -- Technique.
Globalization -- History -- 19th century.
Globalization.
Scotland -- Pictorial works.
Genre/Form Pictorial works.
Subject Canada -- Pictorial works.
Canada.
China -- Pictorial works.
China.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Illustrated works.
Illustrated works.
ISBN 9780773558052 (electronic book)
0773558055 (electronic book)
9780773557130