Portraits of a Distant People By a Pioneer With a Camera

Photographs by John Thomson at Atlas Books/Gallery
Mitchell Owens, New York Times, 17 Aug 1997
An exhibition of Thomson's work, 40 photographs of the people and places of the Far East taken between 1866 and 1871, opened here on Aug. 6, at the Atlas Books/Gallery. Each of the images has also been reproduced in a limited edition of 350 hand-finished silver gelatin prints made from original glass-plate negatives. Prices for the new prints, which measure roughly 12 inches by 16 inches, range from about $215 to about $370.