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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Robert Adamson
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(1821–48) Scottish photographer, responsible with David Octavius *Hill for many of the early masterpieces of portrait photography. Within not much more than a year of Fox *Talbot's patent of his calotype process (1841), the 22-year-old Adamson was in business taking portraits by this method in Edinburgh. His association with Hill, an artist, began in 1843. In the few years that remained of Adamson's life they together took some 1800 photographs, mainly portraits but also scenes in and around Edinburgh.
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