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- Donald Mennie
- The Grandeur of the Gorges
- 1926
- PGP 402
- Scottish Art
Donald Mennie (Scottish, 1875 / 1876 - 1944)
Although born and brought up in Scotland, Mennie spent most of his life in China. According to Scotland?s 1891 census, the young Mennie was training as a chemist in Golspie, Sutherland. By 1914 he was working in China for the pharmacy firm A.S. Watson & Co. In 1934 the firm was listed as a ?dealer in all kinds of photographic chemicals and apparatus?, a move which may have been influenced by Mennie?s interest in photography. Mennie?s first photographic work dates from 1914 and in 1920 he published his earliest photo-book. His passion for travel fuelled his photography and in 1926 he produced his magnum opus, `Grandeur of the Gorges?, which recorded his journey up the Yangtze River. Mennie?s style was concerned with capturing the atmospheric quality of the scene, not merely documenting it.
