Back Wynd from Trongate
Medium
Photogravure, plate 47 from the book "The Old Closes & Streets of Glasgow" (1900)
Dimensions
Image: 22 × 17 cm (8 11/16 × 6 3/4 in.); Paper: 37.8 × 27.4 cm (14 15/16 × 10 13/16 in.)
Classification
photograph
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
234051
About the Artist
James Craig Annan
James Craig Annan (1864–1946) was a Scottish photographer widely regarded as one of the leading figures in the Pictorialist movement that sought to establish photography as a legitimate fine art at the turn of the twentieth century. The son of the distinguished Glasgow photographer Thomas Annan, James Craig grew up immersed in the craft and business of photography, inheriting both his father's tec...