In Focus: Hill and Adamson: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum

by Anne Lyden

Overview

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. During their brief but prolific association (1843-1848), Hill and Adamsom 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 four hundred of their works, forty-seven of which are featured in this latest addition to the popular In Focus series. This collection of remarkable images also includes commentary on the plates, a chronology of the artists partnership, and an edited transcript of a colloquium on the artists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780892365401
Publisher:	Getty Publications
Publication date:	03/25/1999
Series:	In Focus
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	148
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 7.63(h) x 0.40(d)

Editorial Reviews

Explored here is the collaborative work of two Scottish photographers, Hill (1802-70) and Adamson (1821-48), who were pioneers in almost every area of the medium. Out of the 460 images the J.Paul Getty Museum holds, this book presents 50, with interpretive commentary by Anne Lyden. Also included is a condensed transcript of a 1997 discussion by several curators and photographers on the accomplishments of these two artists. A brief chronology completes the book. 6x7.5". Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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