| In Focus: Hill and Adamson: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum Contributor(s): Lyden, Anne (Author) |
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ISBN: 0892365404 ISBN-13: 9780892365401 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 1999 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Photography | History - Photography | Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General - Photography | Individual Photographers - General |
| Dewey: 779.092 |
| LCCN: 98-4127 |
| Series: In Focus |
| Physical Information: 0.38" H x 6.04" W x 7.67" (0.64 lbs) 148 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |