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Hill-Adamson in New York auction
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PHOTOGRAPHS taken in Scotland more than 150 years ago will take
pride of place in a New York saleroom next month. Six works by the
photography pioneers David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson go on
sale at Sotheby's on 7 April.
The portraits are from a series of 500 taken throughout Scotland
in the mid-19th century.
Hill, a painter from Perth and Adamson, an Edinburgh chemist,
took
advantage of a legal loophole to use Fox Talbot's calotype process -
which was patented in England but not Scotland. The pair failed to
make much money from their work, but even today their portraits are
recognised ...
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