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David Octavius Hill — Camera Work: Mrs. Rigby
David Octavius Hill

Camera Work: Mrs. Rigby

1905

Published through Stieglitz's Camera Work, the photogravure reproduction presented Hill's 1840s portrait work to the pictorialist photography movement. Camera Work's exceptional printing quality maintained the subtle gradations that characterized Hill and Adamson's revolutionary calotype portraits.

Medium
photogravure

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David Octavius Hill, Camera Work: Mrs. Rigby, 1905

Published through Stieglitz's Camera Work, the photogravure reproduction presented Hill's 1840s portrait work to the pictorialist photography movement. Camera Work's exceptional printing quality maintained the subtle gradations that characterized Hill and Adamson's revolutionary calotype portraits.

Medium
photogravure
Year
1905
Seen at
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Figural, Victorian, Monochrome, Photography, 19th Century, Scottish, Female, Portrait, Photogravure, Sepia

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