From the pioneering work of Hill and Adamson to the experimental work of contemporary artists, this title provides a history, a setting, and a scale for the growth of photography in Scotland.
Tom Normand was educated in Dunfermline, and subsequently took a degree in Sociology and Politics at Glasgow College. His doctoral thesis, in the Sociology of Culture, wass taken at Durham University. He has taught ant Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee, and, since 1982, has lectured in the History of Art at the University of St. Andrews. He has published widely on the history of art, with a special interest in developments in art and photography in Scotland. He has lectured, nationally and internationally, on Scottish art, culture and society.