b. 8 March 1864; d. 5 June 1946
The son of the Scottish photographer Thomas Annan, he is particularly
remembered as an expert in photogravure. His re-photographing of Hill
and Adamson's pictures revived interest in the latter. He was made a
member of the Linked Ring in 1894, and his work was published in
a number of editions of Camera Work, which describes
him as "one of the foremost artists in photography."
The Royal Photographic Society has some sixty
photographs, mostly photogravures, which were acquired from the photographer
and others from the 1920s.
© Robert Leggat, 1999.