Artist's Biography
David Hill (1802 - 1870)
Robert Adamson (1821 - 1848)
The dynamic partnership of David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson in Scotland lasted only five years (1843 to 1848). Hill, the artist, and Adamson, the chemist, joined forces to become one of the most groundbreaking unions in the art of the photographic world to this day. Their work, admired by many pictorialist at the end of 19th century, including Alfred Steiglitz, was tragically cut short due to Adamson death.