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29 novembre 2016
- handle: 10670/1.nlej1d
- isbn: 9781783741274
- eisbn: 9782821876156
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Glasgow XIXème siècle bidonville photographie époque victorienne Victorian era Glasgow photography slum Humanities, Multidisciplinary PHO023000 AFSujets proches
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Lionel Gossman, « 4. Landscapes », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.nlej1d
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Like portraiture, landscape was a major genre of painting and was similarly adopted by the earliest photographers. As Ray McKenzie, a contemporary scholar at the Glasgow School of Art, notes: Since the publication, in 1845, of William Henry Fox Talbot’s Sun Pictures in Scotland, landscape has been one of the most abiding obsessions in the Scottish photographic tradition. Aspects of the country’s physical appearance have proved a source of endless fascination both for indigenous photographers,...