Rather than offering a chronological discussion

David Featherstone

albumen prints

ISBN 978-0-89236-599-9

for the first time

In Focus: Hill and Adamson Valentine 2024 Rather than offering a chronologicalAnne M. Lyden Shortly after the dawn of photography, the unlikely partnership between the respected painter David Octavius Hill and the young engineer Robert Adamson produced some of the most important photographs in the history of the medium. Their alliance began when Hill, while working on his large commemorative painting of the people involved in forming the Free Church of Scotland in 1843, began using photography as a tool to document the church