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Indepth Arts News:
"Facing the Light: The Photography of Hill and Adamson"
2002-05-10 until 2002-09-15
Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Edinburgh, ,
UK United Kingdom
The bicentenary of one of the world‘s greatest photographic pioneers is celebrated with a
nation-wide festival of exhibitions and events.
Born on 20 May 1802, David Octavius Hill, along with his partner Robert Adamson, is credited with
inventing photography as an artform. Between 1843 and 1847, from their studio in Edinburgh, Hill
and Adamson produced over 3000 portraits, city views and landscapes - the most important single
body of photography to have survived from this period.
The Scottish National Portrait Gallery
houses the main collection of Hill and Adamson's work, as part of the Scottish National
Photography Collection, and celebrates Hill's bicentenary festival with this exhibition of some 200
images. The display concentrates mainly on calotypes, as Hill's most successful enterprise in art,
but also includes paintings and engravings, which demonstrate Hill's considerable talent as a
painter and printmaker.
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