Camera Memoria: Some Thoughts Initiated by Lionel Gossman’s Thomas Annan of Glasgow

Thomas Annan is a fascinating study, both in the particular case of Lionel Gossman’s fine monograph on this photographer [http://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/339/thomas-annan-of-glasgow--pioneer-of-the-documentary-photograph] (I nearly wrote ‘artist’) and in the general sense of an individual experimenting with a dynamic new technology. The tensions in this first