| Names: | | | Dates: | 1821, 26 April - 1848, 18 January | | Born: | Great Britain, Scotland, St. Andrews | | Active: | Scotland | | Gender: | Male |
Scottish photographer who worked with David Octavius Hill.Preparing biographies
General reading
Taylor, R, 2002, Photographs Exhibited In Britain 1839-1865. A Compendium Of Photographers And Their Works, (Ottawa: National Gallery Of Canada) [Δ]
Readings on, or by, individual photographers
1999, Hill and Adamson: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum, (J. Paul Getty Museum Publications) [In Focus series] [Δ]
Bell, Keith (ed.), 1987, Photographs of David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, (Saskatoon: Mendell Art Gallery) [Δ]
Bruce, David, 1973, Sun Pictures: The Hill-Adamson Calotypes, (Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society) [Δ]
Ford, Colin (ed.), 1976, An Early Victorian Album: The Photographic Masterpieces (1843-1847) of David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, (New York: Alfred A. Knopf) [Δ]
Harley Jr, Ralph L, 1986, ‘The D. O. Hill and Robert Adamson Partnership‘, History of Photography, vol.10, no.4, pp.303-312 [Δ]
Smith, Graham, 1983, ‘Calotype Views of St. Andrews' by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson‘, History of Photography, vol.7, no.3, pp.207-236 [Δ]
Stevenson, S, 1981, David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson. Catalogue of their Calotypes taken between 1843 and 1847 in the Collection of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, (Edinburgh: Scottish National Portrait Gallery) [Δ]
Stevenson, Sara, 1990, Hill and Adamson's The Fishermen and Women of the Firth of Forth, (Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland) [Δ]
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Family history
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The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers. |
• Auer, Michele & Michel 1985 Encyclopedie Internationale Des Photographes de 1839 a Nos Jours / Photographers Encylopaedia International 1839 to the present (Hermance, Editions Camera Obscura) 2 volumes [A classic reference work for biographical information on photographers.]
• Beaton, Cecil & Buckland, Gail 1975 The Magic Eye: The Genius of Photography from 1839 to the Present Day (Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown & Company) p.38 [Useful short biographies with personal asides and one or more example images.]
• Capa, Cornell (ed.) 1984 The International Center of Photography: Encyclopedia of Photography (New York, Crown Publishers, Inc. - A Pound Press Book) p.249
• Lenman, Robin (ed.) 2005 The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (Oxford: Oxford University Press) [Includes a short biography on Robert Adamson.]
• Weaver, Mike (ed.) 1989 The Art of Photography 1839-1989 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press) p.458 [This exhibition catalogue is for the travelling exhibition that went to Houston, Canberra and London in 1989.]
• Witkin, Lee D. and Barbara London 1979 The Photograph Collector’s Guide (London: Secker and Warburg) p.67 [Long out of print but an essential reference work - the good news is that a new edition is in preparation.]
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