Mrs. Anne Rigby and Lady Elizabeth Eastlake
1916 · Carbon print
Image/paper: 20.5 × 15.3 cm (8 1/8 × 6 1/16 in.); Mount: 38.5 × 26.7 cm (15 3/16 × 10 9/16 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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David Octavius Hill
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21
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210
Works in Collection
383
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Self Portrait: The Photographer's Persona, 1840�1985
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1985–1986
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From the Gilman Collection: Photographs Preserved in Ink
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1984–1985
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Reinstallation of the Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1980
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Edward Steichen Photography Center Reinstallation
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1979
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Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the Arnold H. Crane Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1979
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David Octavius Hill was a Scottish painter and pioneering photographer who, from the 1840s onward, created some of the earliest portrait photographs in collaboration with chemist Robert Adamson. Working in calotype, a paper-based photographic process, Hill and Adamson produced approximately 3,000 images in their Edinburgh studio before Adamson's death in 1848. Hill's subsequent career combined painting with continued photographic practice, establishing him as a foundational figure in early photographic portraiture. His work demonstrates the artistic possibilities of photography at a moment when the medium was still contested as a legitimate art form.
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