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John Thomson (photographer)
Scottish photographer (1837–1921)
John ThomsonFRGS (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 artefacts of eastern cultures.
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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.
Early life
The son of William Thomson, a tobacco spinner and retail trader, and his wife Isabella Newlands, Thomson was born the eighth of nine children in Edinburgh in the year of Queen Victoria's accession.
From 1841, the family lived at 6 Brighton Street in Edinburgh's South Side (now marked by a plaque).[1]
After his schooling in the early 1850s,