David Bruce /wyd./
Sun Pictures
The Hill-Adamson Calotypes
New York Graphic Society 1973
Stron 247, format: 21 x29 cm
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130 ilustracji
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Many of the earliest photographers regarded the permanent capture of an image on metal, paper or glass less as man's achievement than as nature's method of painting. Consequently, a man could write on his work, 'sol fecit' - 'the sun made it'. It was an attitude that seems to have survived for only the few years it took for photography to become highly commercial but in that time one of the highwater marks of photographic accomplishment was reached in the calotypes of David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson.
In this book, a hundred and thirty Hill/Adamson calotypes from various sources are presented in much their original size and appearance. They represent a remarkable historical record and an outstanding artistic achievement.
The calotype process was invented by Fox Talbot in 1839. As a technique it had severe limitations, of which the need for two or three minute exposures was not the least, but, largely because of an odd series of historical accidents, it became the medium by which we have been handed down a unique and delightful record of the early Victorian age. Hill and Adamson began their work together in 1843 with the object of producing hundreds of likenesses of the founders of the Free Church of Scotland to assist Hill in painting a massive commemorative picture, but the artistic possibilities of photography were so evident that the two men were soon engaged in recording all manner of people and scenes around them in Edinburgh. The resulting work has a sense of repose, often an informality and wit which is remarkably at variance with most Victorian photography, almost always a charm to make it remarkable in any age.
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