David Octavius Hill
Newhaven Fishwives, Jeanie Wilson and Annie Linton
1845
Hill and Adamson's calotype captures working-class Scottish women in one of photography's earliest ethnographic portraits. Part of their groundbreaking collaboration in the 1840s, it demonstrates the calotype process's ability to record social life with unprecedented directness.
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- salted paper print from calotype negative
Spotted works by David Octavius Hill
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