John Thomson

Title: A Pagoda on an Island in the Estuary if the Min River

Artist: Thomson, John

Medium: n/a

Year: 1870-71



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John was one of the first photographers to document the people, landscapes, and the artifacts of the eastern culture traveling to the Far East. He became a High Society in Mayfair in 1881. Thomson inspired by Henri Mouhot’s embarked on his major photographic expeditions the first of many. John Thomson was a very talented photographer in many different areas. With his legacy of a outstanding quality and breadth of coverage. In some of his work he was seem as a photojournalism of the people in the streets of London. Photographs with words made him a innovator with this combination.







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I really enjoyed John’s Landscaping and Architectural photography the most of what I saw when doing my research. These photos just seem so natural and not set up to look that way. They are the way he is seeing them with his own eyes. The ones with people in the outdoor scenes are just like he took them without the people knowing he was. In the photos I like the best of John Thomson are these ones that are without the people even caring if they are in the photo they are doing what they doing normally. The landscaping ones look so unique but not set up. John has a wide variety of different specialty scenes that he is very great at taking photographs.







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