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Lombardy Pastoral Annan, James Craig (Scottish, 1864-1946)

Title
Lombardy Pastoral
Artist
Annan, James Craig (Scottish, 1864-1946)Key Figure
Publication
Camera Notes Vol. 1 No. 4
Date
1898
Process
Photogravure
Atelier
James Craig Annan
Image Size
6 x 18 cm

Driven by an honest depiction of working life, Lombardy Pastoral is an example of James Craig Annan’s personal exploration of the Realist movement. The image typifies the strong British interest in idyllic landscapes. The image’s long horizontal shape, probably influenced by Japanese art, was unusual in nineteenth-century photography.

Reproduced / Exhibited

Bologna, Gabriella, The Aesthetics of British Photography. A Case Study: James Craig Annan’s Portfolio Venice and Lombardy in Anon. 2013. Aesthetic Lives : ‘New Experiences New Subjects of Poetry New Forms of Art’. High Wycombe Bucks England: Rivendale Press

References

Bologna, Gabriella, The Aesthetics of British Photography. A Case Study: James Craig Annan’s Portfolio Venice and Lombardy in Anon. 2013. Aesthetic Lives : ‘New Experiences New Subjects of Poetry New Forms of Art’. High Wycombe Bucks England: Rivendale Press

The Craig-Annan exhibition; Photography 8.424 (1896), p. 842.