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One of the first monographs about a photographer as artist, the title and the book miss the historical importance of Robert Adamson as partner to Hill, so that history now refers to the work represented here as by "Hill and Adamson." The eighty illustrations emphasize portraiture, which was the bulk of Hill and Adamson's work, but hardly do justice to their mastery of landscape, complex groupings, or their important visual records of fisherfolk.

The opinions for what is great photography have varied widely over the relatively short history of the medium but few bodies of work have fared so well, so broadly, over so much time as that of Hill and Adamson.… (more)
 
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j-b-colson | Sep 7, 2010 |
An important work by a serious and well versed scholar. Unfortunately, an extremely boring read.
 
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ikkyu2462 | Jan 7, 2008 |

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