About: John McCosh

An Entity of Type: person, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

John McCosh or John MacCosh or James McCosh (Kirkmichael, Ayrshire, 5 March 1805 – 18 January / 16 March 1885) was a Scottish army surgeon who made documentary photographs whilst serving in India and Burma. His photographs during the Second Anglo-Sikh War (1848–1849) of people and places associated with the British rule in India (for which he is best known), and of the Second Burmese War (1852–1853), count as sufficient grounds, some historians maintain, to recognise him as the first war photographer known by name. McCosh wrote a number of books on medicine and photography, as well as books of poetry.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • John McCosh, auch James McCosh, Jethro McCosh, John MacCosh und John M’Cosh (* 5. März 1805 in Kirkmichael (South Ayrshire), Schottland; † 16. März 1885 in London) war ein schottischer Militär-Chirurg, Amateur-Fotograf und Schriftsteller. In den 25 Jahren von 1831 bis 1856 diente der Schotte John McCosh als Militär-Chirurg des Indian Medical Service in der bengalischen Armee der Britischen Ostindien-Kompanie. Der Nachwelt bekanntgeworden ist er durch seine Fotografien aus Britisch-Indien, die zu den frühsten Fotoaufnahmen aus dieser Weltregion zählen; er gilt zudem als einer der ersten namentlich bekannten Kriegsfotografen; seinen Zeitgenossen war er eher als Arzt und Dichter bekannt. (de)
  • John McCosh or John MacCosh or James McCosh (Kirkmichael, Ayrshire, 5 March 1805 – 18 January / 16 March 1885) was a Scottish army surgeon who made documentary photographs whilst serving in India and Burma. His photographs during the Second Anglo-Sikh War (1848–1849) of people and places associated with the British rule in India (for which he is best known), and of the Second Burmese War (1852–1853), count as sufficient grounds, some historians maintain, to recognise him as the first war photographer known by name. McCosh wrote a number of books on medicine and photography, as well as books of poetry. Roddy Simpson has written of McCosh's photographs that "Given the circumstances, these images are a considerable achievement and, regardless of artistic merit, are historically very important". Taylor and Schaaf have written that "McCosh fashioned compositions that were exceptional for the period" and that unlike his contemporaries "in his hands, photography was not merely a pastime but became the means of recording history." (en)
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 47991682 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 17083 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1088535759 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
gold:hypernym
schema:sameAs
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • John McCosh, auch James McCosh, Jethro McCosh, John MacCosh und John M’Cosh (* 5. März 1805 in Kirkmichael (South Ayrshire), Schottland; † 16. März 1885 in London) war ein schottischer Militär-Chirurg, Amateur-Fotograf und Schriftsteller. In den 25 Jahren von 1831 bis 1856 diente der Schotte John McCosh als Militär-Chirurg des Indian Medical Service in der bengalischen Armee der Britischen Ostindien-Kompanie. Der Nachwelt bekanntgeworden ist er durch seine Fotografien aus Britisch-Indien, die zu den frühsten Fotoaufnahmen aus dieser Weltregion zählen; er gilt zudem als einer der ersten namentlich bekannten Kriegsfotografen; seinen Zeitgenossen war er eher als Arzt und Dichter bekannt. (de)
  • John McCosh or John MacCosh or James McCosh (Kirkmichael, Ayrshire, 5 March 1805 – 18 January / 16 March 1885) was a Scottish army surgeon who made documentary photographs whilst serving in India and Burma. His photographs during the Second Anglo-Sikh War (1848–1849) of people and places associated with the British rule in India (for which he is best known), and of the Second Burmese War (1852–1853), count as sufficient grounds, some historians maintain, to recognise him as the first war photographer known by name. McCosh wrote a number of books on medicine and photography, as well as books of poetry. (en)
rdfs:label
  • John McCosh (de)
  • John McCosh (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:wikiPageDisambiguates of
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
pFad - Phonifier reborn

Pfad - The Proxy pFad of © 2024 Garber Painting. All rights reserved.

Note: This service is not intended for secure transactions such as banking, social media, email, or purchasing. Use at your own risk. We assume no liability whatsoever for broken pages.


Alternative Proxies:

Alternative Proxy

pFad Proxy

pFad v3 Proxy

pFad v4 Proxy