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January 16, 2009
The partnership of David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson is unequalled in the history of photography for its sophistication and impact.
Using the Calotype process they produced a wide range of portraits depicting well-known Scottish luminaries of the time and photographed local and Fife landscapes and urban scenes.
They met in Edinburgh in 1843 after Robert Adamson had set up the first studio in Scotland to work with William Henry Fox Talbot’s ‘calotype’ process. They first met to see if Hill could use photography to aid the painting, but almost immediately discovered the potential excitements of photography. Their partnership produced around 3000 prints, but was cut short after only four years due to the ill health and untimely death of Adamson in 1848.
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