Mutesa I
Mutesa I , d. 1884, kabaka, or king, of Buganda (now in Uganda), c.1857-84. He brought Buganda to its height by increasing the autocratic powers of the kabaka, strengthening the army, improving the bureaucracy, and opening up trade, often in slaves, with Arab merchants. During his reign the first Europeans were admitted into Buganda.
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Review Never knowingly undersold Facing the Light: The Photography of Hill and Adamson
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 5/14/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Edinburgh PHOTOGRAPHIC pioneers David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson are now getting...This year, the bicentenary of Hill's birth, sees the biggest-ever...culture, let's just take a look at Hill and Adamson with a little detachment...
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Art: Hill and Adamson: More than heroes
Newspaper article from: Scotland on Sunday; 5/12/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...resist the temptation to pose. Hill and Adamson's 1844 portrait of...small Edinburgh studio, the artist David Octavius Hill and engineer-turned-photographer...philosopher Thomas Reid, which tempered David Hume's empiricism with a new...
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Hill-Adamson in New York auction
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 3/24/1998; ; 446 words
; ...works by the photography pioneers David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson go on sale at...Scotland in the mid-19th century. Hill, a painter from Perth and Adamson...works of art in their own right. Hill and Adamson turned the lack of detail...
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Hill put in the frame
Newspaper article from: Evening News - Scotland; 4/10/2002; 288 words
; ...Edinburgh. The meetings, which will coincide with the 200th anniversary of the birth of pioneering photographer David Octavius Hill, will explore every aspect of his life, including his milestone partnership with Robert Adamson when the pair...
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Cameron finds new 'guru' mandrake
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 2/8/2009; ; 367 words
; ...associates informs Mandrake: "Octavius and David go back a long way and have...respective wives. Lately, Octavius has been giving David advice on an informal and ad...near the Camerons in Notting Hill. When, after marrying in...
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PIONEER OF PICTURES.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 5/10/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...photographic equipment. As a new exhibition of work by David Octavius Hill opens, JONATHAN BROCKLEBANK examines the talent...with rudimentary Victorian technology, Scotsman David Octavius Hill was the first to realise the camera could do...
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John's secret's out.
Newspaper article from: Linlithgowshire Journal & Gazette (Linlithgowshire, Scotland); 5/12/2006; 700+ words
; ...has just finished his book, Mr Hill's Big Picture, about a 19th Century painting by David Octavius Hill that gave a pictorial account...Before my research I knew of David Octavius Hill but just through general interest...
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A sensation akin to introducing a Neanderthal at a Victorian soire
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 5/16/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...the artist and pioneer photographer, David Octavius Hill, and the stonemason, geologist, journalist...Preachers denounced it from the pulpit; Sir David Brewster, physicist and mentor to Octavius Hill, warned that the book risked "poisoning...
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Face of Afghan spy revealed in forgotten photo; Gallery uncovers 150- year-old negativesof adventurer's historic visit to Scotland
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald; 4/21/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...collection of images taken by photographic pioneers David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson. The image is one of a number...historical text for Afghan scholars. Facing the Light: David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson opens at the Scottish National...
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5m pounds photography museum comes into focus
Newspaper article from: Scotland on Sunday; 6/2/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...old Royal High School on Calton Hill, built in 1829, is widely regarded...historically-famous photographers, David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson - recognised...on the slopes of Calton Hill, David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson had little...
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David Octavius Hill
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
David Octavius Hill 1802-70, and Robert Adamson, 1821-48, Scottish pioneer photographers. Hill was a painter of romantic Scottish landscapes...of Edinburgh before Adamson died at 27. Hill returned to painting and the partners...
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Paul Strand
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...painting and sculpture exhibited by Stieglitz, as well as the photography of nineteenth-century masters such as David Octavius Hill and Julia Margaret Cameron. Strand also saw the works of such contemporary photographers as Edward Steichen. Although...
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Robert Adamson
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Robert Adamson see Hill, David Octavius .
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