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In 2015 portraits by Dr John Adamson were displayed at the National
Museum of Scotland exhibition Photography: A Victorian Sensation.
The audience response to these powerful works was such that this
book has been produced, the first devoted to placing his work in
its historical context and to acquainting a new audience with his
work which, for conservation reasons, cannot be displayed all the
time. Dr Adamson (1809-70) was the older brother of the better
known Robert Adamson (1821-48), famous for his pioneering
photography work with D. O. Hill. John Adamson remained an amateur;
his photography had to be fitted in around his busy medical
practice in St Andrews. The photographs are drawn mainly from two
extremely early and significant albums, presented to the Museum in
the 1940s. An Appendix has technical information on, for example:
camera obscura, lenses, daguerreotype, calotype, the albumen
process, and the collodian negative process.
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