The personal art of David Octavius Hill / Sara Stevenson.

Main entry:

Stevenson, Sara.

Title & Author:

The personal art of David Octavius Hill / Sara Stevenson.

Publication:

Description:

40, 190 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Series:

Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Arts

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-185) and index.
1. Mr Hill, Mr Adamson and the Partnership -- 2. The Disconnected Triangle: Brewster, Talbot and Hill and Adamson -- 3. The Aesthetic Character and Practice of the Calotype -- 4. D.O. Hill and Edinburgh Society -- 5. Personal and Professional Ambition -- 6. Writing Fact and Living Fiction -- 7. Nationality and the Vernacular -- 8. Time and Mortality -- 9. The Figure and Expression -- 10. D.O. Hill's Landscape.

Summary:

"David Octavius Hill (1802-70), was a pioneer photographer, a painter and lithographer. In 1843, he entered into partnership with the young photographer Robert Adamson, and in the next four years they produced an extraordinary body of work, the originality and inventiveness of which has fascinated photographers and historians for a hundred and fifty years."
"The invention of photography signalled the origins of modernity, but was connected to the concerns of its own time, many of which have since become mysterious or confused. This book is designed to present considerable new research, firstly analysing the photographic partnership and offering an understanding of its remarkable success; secondly, explaining the purpose and intelligence of this familiar work in the context of Hill's life of sixty-eight years. He lived at a time when Scotland was driven by an astonishing energy and urge for exploration and improvement, coupled with a newly confident nationalism, based on religious dynamism and literary fame.
Hill himself, a kind and empathetic man, was an active force in his own world: an enthusiast driven by a strong social impulse as well as a desire to improve the arts, which made his actions and thinking generous and democratic." "Displaying a gallery of Hill and Adamson's sensitive and atmospheric photographs, this book is a tribute to their partnership and their significant contribution to the history of photography."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0300095341 (acid-free paper)
9780300095340 (acid-free paper)

Subject:

Hill, David Octavius, 1802-1870.
Adamson, Robert, 1821-1848.
Hill, David Octavius, (1802-1870) Critique et interprétation.
Adamson, Robert, (1821-1848) Critique et interprétation.
Photographers Scotland Edinburgh Biography.
Photography Scotland Edinburgh History.
Calotype Scotland Edinburgh History.
Photographes Écosse Édimbourg Biographies.
Photographie Écosse Édimbourg Histoire.
Calotype Écosse Édimbourg Histoire.
Calotype.
Photographers.
Photography.
Foto's.
Calotype History.
Photographes Grande-Bretagne Écosse (GB)
Calotype Grande-Bretagne Écosse (GB)
Scotland Edinburgh.

Form/genre:

Biography
Quotations (texts)
Correspondence.
Biographies.
History.

Added entries:

Studies in British art (Unnumbered)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 224092
Call No.: TR140.H645 S7 2002
Status: Available

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