A perfect chemistry
Subtitle: Photographs by Hill and Adamson
By: Anne M. Lyden
Contributors: Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Publisher: National Galleries of Scotland
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 118
ISBN-13: 9781911054047
Subjects: Exhibitions
Other titles: Photographs by Hill and Adamson
Description: Pioneering Edinburgh photographers David Octavius Hill (1802-1870) and Robert Adamson (1821-1848) together formed one of the most famous partnerships in the history of photography. Producing highly skilled photographs just four years after the new medium was announced to the world in 1839, their images of people, buildings and scenes in and around Edinburgh offer a fascinating glimpse into 1840s Scotland. Their much-loved prints of the Newhaven fisherfolk are among the first images of social documentary photography.In the space of four and a half years Hill and Adamson produced several thousand prints encompassing landscapes, architectural views, tableaux vivants from Scottish literature and an impressive suite of portraits featuring key members of Edinburgh society.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, May 27 - October 1, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references (page 118).