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When I take a walk through the splendid Dean Cemetery I always pause by this memorial, the burial place of David Octavius Hill. Hill was a 19th century artist in Edinburgh, and an influential chap (he was one of the group who set up the a separate Scottish Academy for artists). However it is for his partnership in the 1840s with Robert Adamson in Edinburgh for which he is best remembered now. Photography was new-born, and he was introduced to Adamson who was experimenting with early cameras when he was trying to paint The Great Disruption (a large schism in the church) and friends suggested trying the new medium to capture some images of the ministers involved to work from for his larger painting. From this one of the first great innovations in photography took place - Adamson, the technical engineer was a wizard with the new technology, Hill brought the eye of the trained artist into lighting and composition. Like other early photographers they took studio portraits, but they also took their early, bulky cameras outdoors, landscapes, cityscapes, the Scott Monument during its construction and even early documentary/photo journalism, capturing images of working lives such as the hard-working Newhaven fishwives carrying their great burdens, passing on a treasure trove of images of a now bygone age to the future and at the same time expanding what photographers thought they could accomplish with the new medium. Hill's first wife died very young, and after a long period as a widower he remarried to Amelia, an artist in her own right, and it was her hands which crafted this wonderful bust on his memorial. I like to pause by this one and imagine I'm showing him my new camera and wondering at what he and Adamson would have made from such a device. Photography heroes.
Dean Cemetery — туристическая достопримечательность, одна из Кладбища в городе Эдинбург, Великобритания. Он расположен: 196 км от Глазго, 790 км от Лидс, 850 км от Ливерпуль. Читать далее
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