John Thomson (14 June 1837 – 29 September 1921) was a pioneering Scottish photographer, geographer and traveller. He was one of the first photographers to travel to the Far East, documenting the people, landscapes and artifacts of eastern cultures. Upon returning home, his work among the street people of London cemented his reputation, and is regarded as a classic instance of social documentary which laid the foundations for photojournalism. He went on to become a portrait photographer of High Society in Mayfair, gaining the Royal Warrant in 1881.
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It all began with photographer John Thomson in 1876 with his monthly magazine Street Life in London, publishing his pictures accompanied by pen portraits by Adolphe Smith as an early attempt to use photojournalism to record the lives of common people.
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Know more about him in Wikipedia.
It all began with photographer John Thomson in 1876 with his monthly magazine Street Life in London, publishing his pictures accompanied by pen portraits by Adolphe Smith as an early attempt to use photojournalism to record the lives of common people.
A Convicts’ Home
An Old Clothes Shop, St Giles
Caney the Clown
Cast-Iron Billy
Cheap Fish of St Giles
Labourers at Covent Garden Market
Dealer in Fancy Ware (termed swag selling)
Flying Dustmen
Italian Street Musicans
London Nomades
Mush-Fakers and Ginger-Beer Makers.
Old Furniture Seller in Holborn
Itinerant Photographer on Clapham Common
Public Disinfectors
Strawberries, All Ripe! All Ripe!
Street Advertising
Street Doctor
Survivors of Street Floods in Lambeth
The ”Crawlers”
The Independent Bootblack
The London Boardmen
The Seller of Shellfish
The Street Locksmith
The Temperance Sweep
The Wall-Workers (A system of cheap advertising whereby a wall is covered with an array of placards that are hung up in the morning and taken in at night)
The Water Cart
Workers on the Silent Highway
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