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In Focus: Hill and Adamson - Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum (Paperback)
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In Focus: Hill and Adamson - Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum (Paperback)
Series: Getty Publications - (Yale)
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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 Chruch of Scotland in 1843,
began using photography as a tool to document the church elders.
What followed was a four-and-a-half-year partnership - cut short by
Adamson's untimely death in 1848 - that produced a large body of
work. During their association Hill and Adamson experimented with
some of the earliest calotype processes creating hundreds of
portraits, staged dramatic photographs, and architectural and
landscape images. The Getty Museum holds more than 400 works by
Hill and Adamson, 47 of which are featured in this volume. The
plates are accompanied by commentary from Anne M. Lyden, curatorial
assistant in the Department of Photographs at the Museum. A colour
foldout of Hill's above-referenced painting "The Signing of the
Deed of Demission (The Disruption Picture)" appears in the back of
the book. The book includes a chronology of the key events of the
artists' partnership and an edited transcript of a colloquium on
the artists, with participants: Lyden; Weston Naef, curator of
photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum; Sara Stevenson, curator of
photographs at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery; Alison
Morrison-Low, curator, History of Science Section, National Museums
of Scotland; Jonathon Reff, photographer, Los Angeles; Michael
Wilson, private collector, Los Angeles and London; and David
Featherstone, independent editor and curator, San Francisco.
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