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Thomas Annan

Close, no. 37, High Street, 1877

Description

Maker

  • Thomas Annan, 1829-1887, Scottish

Title

Close, no. 37, High Street

Year

1877

Medium

Carbon print from glass negative

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • pigment,
  • glass

Dimensions

28.6 x 22.9 cm (11 3/16 x 9 inches) (plate)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Printed on original mount across bottom:15. Close, No. 37 High Street

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Photographs

Credit

Walter H. Kimball Fund

Object Number

75.064

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Early Exposures

March 13 - July 19, 2015

The dark conditions of this close, or narrow alleyway closed at one end, required the most light-sensitive method possible—the wet collodion process. Carrying chemicals with him, Thomas Annan coated the glass negative with photo-sensitive materials on site, capturing the exposure while the plate was still wet and developing it immediately after.

Photography played an important role in the late-19th-century urban renewal plans of many European cities, where the wide-scale demolition of existing structures took place to accommodate new boulevards and buildings. Annan took the photograph as part of a project documenting the slums of Glasgow before their demolition by the Glasgow City Improvement Trust.

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is Close, no. 37, High Street with the accession number of 75.064. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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