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Glasgow
Photography
 Glasgow:
A Portrait
Glasgow: A Portrait is a stunning visual journey through the
ancient Scottish city at the start of the 21 first century.
From Saint Mungo's smallholding to Second City of the Empire,
the city of Glasgow has constantly reinvented itself. Now this
multicultural city moves into the vibrant 21st century with
an ancient heart and a spectacular skyline. Roy Firth's journey
through the history, landscape and architecture of the city
is illustrated with his breathtaking portraits of the city's
most famous - and hidden - landmarks, Each picture is accompanied
with some background history. Includes portraits of: Glasgow
Art School, Bontanic Gardens, Gallery of Modern Art, Pollok
House, Necropolis, Glasgow Cathedral, Buchanan Galleries, Provand's
Lordship, Antonine Wall, Burns Cottage, Dumbarton Castle, Haggs
Castle, Paisley Abbey, Ibrox and Parkhead Statiums, House for
an Art Lover and many more. Glasgow
Photography.
 Glasgow
Victoriana: Classic Photographs by Thomas Annan
The book contains the best of Thomas Annan's photographs of
Victorian Glasgow. During the Victorian period, Glasgow was
an industrial and economic powerhouse: the Second City of Empire.
However, while the elite made and spent vast fortunes, life
for many Glaswegians meant poverty, disease and the most overcrowded
slums in Europe. Nowhere in the Victorian world was the gulf
between haves and have-nots so pronounced.
 Francis
Frith's Glasgow (Photographic Memories S.)
This volume features around 100 finely-detailed photographs
of Glasgow from the Frith archive. There are extended captions
to the pictures and a full introduction is included. The price
quoted includes a voucher to be redeemed with the publisher
for a free mounted print of any view in the book. Glasgow Photography.
 Death
by Design: The True Story of the Glasgow Necropolis
Modelled on Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, the Glasgow Necropolis
first opened for burial in 1832 and has been a haunt for cemetery
tourists ever since. Dominated by its memorial obelisk to John
Knox, the Necropolis is a living testament to Victorian funerary
excesses and the nineteenth century's obsession with death,
sometimes referred to as the Cult of the Dead. Here, Ronnie
Scott surveys the architecture of the Necropolis's monuments,
graves and mausoleums and the architects who built them. And
he also tells the stories of the folk who inhabit the Necropolis
or City of the Dead, as the word necropolis translates. Unlike
Pere Lachaise, the Necropolis in Glasgow may not be able to
boast of being the last resting place of anyone quite as famous
as Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison or Edith Piaf but it does have
its share of celebrity corpses. By the middle of nineteenth
century, anyone who was anyone in Glasgow was buried there or
had a Necropolis monument erected to their memory. The designer
of the Royal Yacht Britannia, industrialists like Charles Tennent
and Lord Kelvin, a Polish freedom fighter, they're all here
and all have their own stories, as do some of the rather less
well-respected occupants, such as the professor of anatomy who
encouraged body-snatching. The architecture of the tombs, gravestones
and memorials is as varied as the lives the citizens of the
Necropolis led, and sometimes just as flamboyant. The men, such
as Alexander 'Greek' Thomson, who designed Glasgow's city-centre
buildings during the period when it was second only to London
in terms of prosperity also had a hand in creating the Necropolis
and their life stories are covered here too.
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