There is virtually no unit cost and little effort in taking a picture with a digital camera, but when each shot meant expense and concentrated exertion, photographers picked their subjects with care.
David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, “Edinburgh Ale: James Ballantine, Dr George Bell and David Octavius Hill” (1843–47), calotype print (courtesy Scottish National Portrait Gallery) Although Hill ...
The history of photography has never followed a straight continuum. Since before the time of Vermeer, artists and scientists have labored at different times and in different locations around the globe ...
In January of 1838, news reached William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) in London that Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (1787-1851) had announced his direct positive process to the Academy of Sciences in ...
He was a Glasgow piano salesman, musician and businessman who in his spare time was the first man to document Scotland's beautiful landscapes in photographic form. The pioneering work of John Muir ...
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