Photography
Dr Werner Kissling: A Retrospective
Portraits, Eriskay
- Description:
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'Isle Eriskay , Outer Hebrides, 1934.
They are all workers on the sea or the soil-men, women and children-singularly strong-looking, picturesque and often handsome.'
Dr Kissling's note, 1978
These portraits show four people from the community living on Eriskay when Kissling visited in 1934.
Top left: Seamus Gilleasbuig Stephain (James MacIsaac).
Top right: Annag Eachainn 'ic Dhomnall
Bottom left: Mary Johnstone.
Bottom right: This person has been identified as both Iain and Dugald MacDonald. The brothers must have looked very similar!
Research note, 2019
- Source:
- Dumfries Museum & Camera Obscura
- Accession number:
- PP/KISSLING COLLECTION, Retrospective 1978/5-8
- Digital Number:
- DMPG281n
- Creation Date:
- 1934
- Copyright:
- Dumfries & Galloway Council
