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They made up compositions and photographed local landscapes and urban scenes, including images of the Scott Monument under construction in Edinburgh. In the summer of 1845, the photographers went to the fishing village of Newhaven, near Edinburgh, to photograph the residents. Their objective was to publish six volumes of pictures on particular subjects. First on the list was The Fishermen and Women of the Firth of Forth. This project was never completed but Hill and Adamson took around 120 pictures of men, women, children, and groups. They thereby produced one of the first large-scale visual explorations of a community in the 19th-century. The three fishermen in this photograph were posed in the open air, since interiors were not light enough for a negative to be quickly produced. 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The team produced a wide range of superb, valuable work and they were the first consistently  and successfully employ calotype process in Great Britain.\r\n\r\n1843 Hill was introduced to Adamson and they began to collaborate on the production of calotype portraits as reference images for the painting ‘The Signing of the Deed of Demission’ which represents 474 dignitaries. Essentially, Hill posed and arranged the individual sitters or groups while Adamson attended to the technical aspects of the exposure, processing, and printing.\r\n\r\nSome of their most powerful images, however, were made in Scottish seashore villages and depict fishermen and women. They also photographed  the architecture and monument of Scotland  and made calotypes of their friends posed in medieval armour or costumes.","briefDescription":"Photograph by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, Newhaven Fishermen, Alexander Rutherford, William Ramsay, and John Liston, sometimes titled<i> Fishermen Ashore</i>, salted paper print from calotype negative, 1843-47","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"Stevenson, Sara. 'David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson: Catalogue of their Calotypes Taken Between 1843 and 1847 in the Collection of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery', (Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland, 1981). 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