CURATOR TOUR: Hill & Adamson: The Clarkson Stanfield Album

Join a special tour of the Ransom Center's , with Jessica S. McDonald, the Nancy Inman and Marlene Nathan Meyerson Curator of Photography. This unprecedented exhibition explores the Clarkson Stanfield Album, a superb volume of early photographs by the celebrated Scottish partnership of Hill & Adamson. Launching their collaboration in Edinburgh in 1843, the established painter David Octavius Hill (1802–1870) and the young photographer Robert Adamson (1821–1848) combined their aesthetic sensitivity and technical brilliance to produce an unparalleled body of portraits, architectural and landscape scenes, and pioneering social documents. Their work endures today as one of the earliest sustained explorations of photography as an artform.

Caption Left: Hill & Adamson (Scottish, active 1843–1847), "A Newhaven Pilot," 1843–1845. Salted paper print, 20.3 x 14.6 cm. From the album 100 Calotypes, 1845. Harry Ransom Center, Gernsheim Collection, purchase, 964:0048:0085.

Caption Right: Hill & Adamson (Scottish, active 1843–1847), "Oyster Dredging," 1843–1845. Salted paper print, 20.3 x 14.5 cm. From the album 100 Calotypes, 1845. Harry Ransom Center, Gernsheim Collection, purchase, 964:0048:0077.

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