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David Octavius Hill — Camera Work: Number 37, January 1912
David Octavius Hill

Camera Work: Number 37, January 1912

1912

Featured in Stieglitz's prestigious photography quarterly, the photogravure demonstrates Camera Work's mission to present photography as fine art. By reproducing Hill's 1840s calotypes, the journal connected contemporary pictorial photography to the medium's earliest artistic achievements.

Medium
photogravure

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David Octavius Hill, Camera Work: Number 37, January 1912, 1912

Featured in Stieglitz's prestigious photography quarterly, the photogravure demonstrates Camera Work's mission to present photography as fine art. By reproducing Hill's 1840s calotypes, the journal connected contemporary pictorial photography to the medium's earliest artistic achievements.

Medium
photogravure
Year
1912
Seen at
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Series, Monochrome, Photography, Old Master, Documentary, 19th Century, Scottish, Historical, Photogravure, Periodical

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