Introduction to the History of Photography

Newhaven fishwives by Hill & Adamson David Octavius Hill standing at the gate to his studio calotype by Hill & Adamson. source: http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/pp_d/pp_hill_calotypes_of_do_hill.htm David Octavius Hill (1802–1870) and Robert Adamson (1821–1848) Redding the Line (Portrait of James Linton), c. 1846 Scotish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh image source: http://www.kiberpipa.org/gallery/album82/David_Octavius_Hill_and_Robert_Adamson_Baiting_the_Line_1845.jpg David Octavius Hill (1802–1870) and Robert Adamson (1821–1848) "Photograph from the frontispiece of an album dated 1848, showing D O Hill sketching in Greyfriars Kirkyard, watched by the Misses Morris. Other tableaux in the same setting included The Artist and The Gravedigger" source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Octavius_Hill "Many of Hill's portraits were made in the Edinburgh Greyfriars cemetery - nothing is more characteristic of this early period than the way his subjects were at...