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Hill & Adamson
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Hill & Adamson was the first photography studio in Scotland, set up by painter David Octavius Hill and engineer Robert Adamson in 1843.[1] During their brief partnership that ended with Adamson's untimely death, Hill & Adamson produced "the first substantial body of self-consciously artistic work using the newly invented medium of photography."[2] Watercolorist John Harden, on first seeing Hill & Adamson's calotypes in November 1843, wrote, "The pictures produced are as Rembrandt's but improved, so like his style & the oldest & finest masters that doubtless a great progress in Portrait painting & effect must be the consequence."[2]
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![]() Composite photograph of Hill (left) and Adamson, both c. 1845 | |
Formation | 1843 |
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Dissolved | 1848 |
Purpose | Photography studio, producing salt prints from calotype negatives |
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Coordinates | 55.954361°N 3.185335°W / 55.954361; -3.185335 |
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Affiliations | David Brewster |
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