Thomas annan biography
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Thomas Annan
Scottish photographer
Thomas Annan (1829–1887) was a Scottish photographer, notable for being the first to record the bad housing conditions of the poor.[1]
Biography
Born in Dairsie, Fife he was one of seven children of John Annan, a flax spinner.
Career
After his initial apprenticeship as a lithographic writer and engraver at the Fife Herald in Cupar, he moved to Glasgow in 1849 and worked as a lithographer and engraver for Joseph Swan until 1855.[2] He set up business with George Berwick at 40 Woodlands Road, Glasgow, listing in the 1855 - 56 Glasgow post office directory as calotypists, practitioners of this early form of photography.[3] In 1855, he photographed the ship RMS Persia, under construction on the Clyde, which was probably a commission by engineer, Robert Napier.
This photograph was part of a group of images sent to the Photographic Exhibition in connection with the British Association.[4]
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