John thomson photographer (5 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Used: Very Good. A nice copy with a tight and square binding. Text and color photos are clean and bright. Softcovers are good. Careful packaging and fast shipping. We recommend EXPEDITED MAIL for even faster delivery.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Glossy, illustrated paper covers; light edge wear; 4to, 9 3/4"-12" tall; photographic illustrations in black and white; no internal markings; 68 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. 147 pages : chiefly illustrations (some colour) ; 29 x 29 cm. Contents: Photography in Siam the crucial years (1861-66) / Joachim K. Bautz The reign of King Mongkut (R. 1851-1868) / Maj. Gen. M.R. Supbhawat Kasemsri and Rachanee Supvichit John Thomson's photographs of Thailand in the Wellcome Library / William Schupbach, Librarian the Wellcome Library, London Photographs in the exhibition: Portraits: royalty and commoners, Ceremonies, Views of Bangkok & beyond, Cambodia, Coastal China Notes: "This book accompanying the exhibition of historic photographs entitled Siam through the Lens of John Thomson including Cambodia and Coastal China is published to celebrate the 5th cycle of HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, as well the 150th anniversary of John Thomson's visit to Siam"--Title page verso.…

London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1881. Quarto (285 x 220 mm), publisher's pictorial red cloth stamped in gilt and black (boards with light staining and flecking, spine sunned and flecked, text block a little sprung), original patterned endpapers, pp [2], [1]-100, with 21 original woodburytypes from Thomson's original dry-plate negatives, each with printed caption and red ruled border, mounted as individual plates on the rectos of the leaves between pages 3 and 43; all of the woodburytpes and their page mounts are in superb condition, without fading or foxing; title page and last page of text with browning (as in other examples), upper margins of a few text pages with mild insect damage, hinges cracked but holding. The first use of published photographs as social documentary. In 1877-78 John Thomson had first collaborated with radical socialist writer Adolphe Smith Headingley in creating 36 photographs accompanied by textual commentary for the monthly parts of Street Life in London. Of this collaborationJohn Hannavy, inThe Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography, wrote: 'The bringing together of the photographer John Thomson and the left-wing political writer and activist Adolphe Smith Headingley to work on the project which resulted in Street Life of London (1877-78), was a logical progression from the collaboration between Richard Beard and Henry Mayhew more than two decades earlier on Mayhew's study of London Labour and the London Poor. Headingley, who wrote under the name of Adolphe Smith, was relatively unknown when he and Thomson collaborated on Street Life and the pairing was an inspired one. Both men had sympathy towards the living and working conditions of their subjects.' In 1878 the twelve monthly parts ofStreet Lifewere reissued in book form; in 1881 an abridged version, Street Incidents,was published which retained the 1878 text but included only 21 of the 36 photographs (the present edition). Street Incidentswas issued essentially as a new work, and the publishers do not credit Thomson as the creator of the strikingly sharp imagesphotomechanically reproduced by the Woodburytype process from the photographer?s original dry-plate negatives. The images in Street Incidents are titled as follows: A Convict's Home; The Wall Worker; Covent Garden Labourers; Halfpenny Ices; Black Jack; The Cheap Fish of St. Giles; Cast-iron Billy; Worker's on the "Silent Highway"; The Street Fruit Trade; The London Boardmen; The Water-cart; "Mush-Fakers" and Ginger-Beer Makers; November Effigies; "Hookey Alf" of Whitechapel; The Crawlers; Italian Street Musicians; The Street Locksmith; The Seller of Shell-fish; Flying Dustmen; Old Furniture; The Independent Shoeblack. The taxonomic approach taken by Thomson to his work can almost be considered scientific: like an anthropologist, he was concerned to classify and accurately capture what he referred to as "the true types of the London poor". Smith (Headingley), with his evocative contextual essays based on interviews with the subjects, brought the element of reformist zeal to the equation. "A pioneering work of social documentation in photographs and words . one of the most significant and far-reaching photobooks in the medium's history." (Parr & Badger, Thephotobook: a history, I, 48).…

Burma c. 1880's. An albumen photograph, sepia tone, 13.5 x 20.5 cm., very good, original old mounting on a card, studio posed, in a large museum mat ca. 40.5 x 51 cm., clear clean, unfaded strong image. R A R E . *** **** *** . . A STUNNING STUDIO POSED PHOTOGRAPH OF A BURMESE WOMAN . . WEARING A TRADITIONAL SARONG . . A VERY EARLY, RARE AND SUPERB IMAGE . * A portrait of a charming young Burmese woman, dressed in her native costume of a long silken and embroidered skirt, with waist band, and an open jacket. Her hair is tightly tied in a chignon behind her head, with three flower-like ornaments stuck in her hair. She wears two heavy silver bracelets and rings on her fingers, with tiny shoes protruding from her skirt. She stands erect, with her left arm supported on some kind of a foreign looking stand, with a foreign chair near by. . She wears very large earrings which must be about 2 cm. in diameter, stretching her highly decorated ear lobes. A superb example of a Burmese beauty. One could speculate she is someone related to a foreign mission or a missionary. She clearly poses in what looks like a 'foreign' studio, with foreign-style furniture. She rests her arm on a non-Burmese pulpit with a foreign chair to her left. . *** JOHN THOMSON [1837-1921]: THE PHOTOGRAPHER: Like so many early photographs, this one is unsigned as usual, but exceptionally reminiscent of the exact type, kind and photographic process commonly used by Thomson, through his travels in the Far East and S.E. Asia. . We are ascribing this image to John Thomson, for several reasons cited above. . Please review photographs posted to our website. . *.…