[Newhaven Fishermen]
Photography Studio Hill and Adamson British, Scottish
David Octavius Hill British, Scottish
Robert Adamson British, Scottish
Not on view
Made by the painter David Octavius Hill and the chemist-photographer Robert Adamson in the first year of their brief but prolific partnership, this study of fishermen is one of some 130 images that show the inhabitants of a fishing village near Edinburgh, Scotland. The series, entitled The Fishermen and Women of the Firth of Forth, constitutes the first sustained use of photographs for a social documentary project. This photograph was printed from a paper negative using the chemical and optical process invented by William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877), which allows an artist to produce any number of prints from a given negative.
