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© Thomas Annan, 1868, High Street from College Open (Plate 3)

Thomas Annan (1829–1887) started off as a commercial photographer, producing cartes-de-visite, landscapes and stereoscopic views. Later, along with his sons John and James Craig Annan, he became famous for his fine art reproductions and his photography documenting the architecture of Glasgow: both its slums before clearance and its elegant houses.

In the late 1860s Annan received a commission from the city authorities of Glasgow to photograph the city centre, which would result in a series of remarkable photographs, later published as ‘The Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow’. (find more information here and here).  

GEH IN OASCH

Yesterday I bought a Record Store Day 2017 limited edition 7″-Single by Georg Danzer & Brenk Sinatra, featuring this photograph on its cover artwork (distorted and retouched):

Here’s side A, the amazing track “Geh in Oasch” (Austrian dialect / something like “screw you” or “go fuck yourself”) by the great Georg Danzer / first published on his album “Narrenhaus” in 1978:

And here’s side B, a HipHop remix of Danzers track by Austrian producer Brenk Sinatra / first published in 2015: