Early Scottish photograph courtesy of the National Gallery of Scotland via BBC News
Toronto. George Dunbar writes, “The Scots Who Pioneered Photography” [is] A BBC review of a 2017 show at the National Galleries of Scotland. Many unique and unusual images here.”
Indeed, this fine 2017 review brings to mind many Scots famous for their imagery in the early years of the new art. The review begins, “More than 200 of the oldest photographs taken in Scotland are to go on display at the National Galleries of Scotland [in May, 2017].
“The influential partnership of David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson lasted for less than five years before the premature death of Adamson, aged just 26. But it produced thousands of images which are admired by photographers to this day.
“Within four years of the invention of photography being announced to the world in 1839, Hill and Adamson had mastered the new medium and were producing innovative work from their studio in Edinburgh.”
Click on the BBC article for further information and a sampling of images from those heady days when Daguerre and Talbot reigned supreme in the art world.
