When the National Galleries of Scotland and the National Library of Scotland jointly acquired the MacKinnon Collection of historic Scottish photography, they knew it contained many exceptional photographs representing the lives and achievements of Scots from the 1840s through to the mid-20th century.
The recent exhibitions of a selection of some of the photographs and on-going cataloguing has allowed for new attributions and datings to be made. In this blog Blake Milteer discusses John D. Stephen’s Dawn of Light and Liberty.
Read the full blog here: https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/features/mackinnon-collection-cataloguing-dawn-light-and-liberty