David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson

*1802-1870 / 1821-1848 / United Kingdom

Works

Solo exhibitions

Hill and Adamson in Newhaven

Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh (GB)
4 Jan 2026 – 17 Jun 2026
Fashion & Textiles 1843–1848

Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh (GB)
10 Jan 2025 – 8 Jun 2025
Hill & Adamson's Edinburgh 1843–1848

Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh (GB)
1 Dec 2023 – 25 Feb 2024
A Perfect Chemistry

Scot. National Portrait, Edinburgh (GB)
27 May 2017 – 1 Oct 2017

Group

Celebrating 40 Years of Scotland’s Photography Collection

Scot. National Portrait, Edinburgh (GB)
26 Oct 2024 – 16 Mar 2025

with Beagles & Ramsay, Julia Margaret Cameron, Don McCullin, Joseph McKenzie, Zed Nelson, Viviane Sassen, Arpita Shah
Informal Moments

Portraits from Photography’s First Decade

Philadelphia Museum Art, Philadelphia (US)
1 Nov 2024 – 2 Mar 2025

with Edouard Baldus, Julia Margaret Cameron, Jean Baptiste Frénet, Charles Nègre
Still Performing

Costume, Gesture, and Expression in 19th Century European Photography

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City (US)
24 Aug 2024 – 12 Jan 2025

with Julia Margaret Cameron, Andre Adolphe-Eugene Disderi, Roger Fenton, Lady Clementina Hawarden, Charles Nègre, Felix Nadar, Pierre-Louis Pierson, Oscar Gustave Rejlander, Camille Silvy, Giorgio Sommer, Adrien Tournachon
Making Space | Photographs of Architecture

Scot. National Portrait, Edinburgh (GB)
7 Oct 2023 – 3 Mar 2024

with Thomas Annan, Andreas Gursky, Chris Leslie, Owen Logan, Joseph Nicephore Niepce, Edith Tudor Hart
Camera Work: Pictorialism and Photogravure

International Photography Hall of Fame, St. Louis (US)
14 Jul 2021 – 16 Oct 2021

with Julia Margaret Cameron, Edward S. Curtis, Gertrude Kaesebier, Heinrich Kuehn, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand
Salt & Silver: Early Photography, 1840 – 1860

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara (US)
8 Sep 2019 – 8 Dec 2019

with Mathew B. Brady, Roger Fenton, William Henry Fox Talbot, Linnaeus Tripe
By Hoof, Paw, Wing or Fin: Creatures in Photographs

HANS P. KRAUS JR, New York (US)
17 Sep 2019 – 15 Nov 2019

with Giacomo Caneva, Adam Fuss, Martin Munkacsi, Edward Steichen
From Today, Painting Is Dead: Early Photography in Britain and France

Featuring nearly 250 iconic pictures created between the 1840s and 1880s.

The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (US)
24 Feb 2019 – 12 May 2019

with Julia Margaret Cameron, Roger Fenton, William Henry Fox Talbot, Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, Baron Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros, Gustave Le Gray, Etienne-Jules Marey, Felix Nadar
Written in Light

Early Photography

Moderna Museet Malmö, Malmö (SE)
26 May 2018 – 13 Jan 2019

with Julia Margaret Cameron, Carl Jacob Malmberg, Oscar Gustave Rejlander, Rosalie Sjoeman, Nils Strindberg, Carleton E. Watkins
Early British Photography

ROSPHOTO, Saint-Petersburg (RU)
4 Oct 2017 – 5 Nov 2017

with Frederick Scott Archer, John and Thereza Mary Dillwyn Llewelyn, Roger Fenton, William Henry Fox Talbot, Nicolaas Henneman, Calvert Richard Jones
A Century of Photography, 1840-1940

National Portrait Gallery, London (GB)
17 Oct 2016 – 29 Oct 2017

with Julia Margaret Cameron, Lewis Carroll, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Frederick Henry Evans, Emil Otto Hoppe, Man Ray , Edward Weston
Written in Light - The First Photographers

Moderna Museet, Stockholm (SE)
8 Apr 2017 – 3 Sep 2017

with Julia Margaret Cameron, Carl Jacob Malmberg, Oscar Gustave Rejlander, Rosalie Sjoeman, Nils Strindberg, Carleton E. Watkins
40th Anniversary Exhibition

Alan Klotz Gallery, New York (US)
2 Jun 2017 – 5 Jul 2017

with Eugene Atget, Bill Brandt, Brassai, Adolphe Braun, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Václav Chochola, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Robert Demachy, Maxime du Camp, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Walker Evans, Frederick Henry Evans …
The Thrill of the Chase

The Wagstaff Collection of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum

The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford (US)
10 Sep 2016 – 11 Dec 2016

with Diane Arbus, Julia Margaret Cameron, Larry Clark, Baron Adolphe De Meyer, Edgar Degas, Thomas Eakins, Harold E. Edgerton, Walker Evans, William Henry Fox Talbot, Robert Frank, Peter Hujar, William Klein …
Alfred Stieglitz and the 19th Century

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (US)
31 Oct 2015 – 27 Mar 2016

with Robert Adamson, Julia Margaret Cameron, Alfred Stieglitz
Salt & Silver

Early Photography 1840-1860

Tate Britain, London (GB)
25 Feb 2015 – 7 Jun 2015

with Robert Adamson, Edouard Baldus, Felice Beato, Mathew B. Brady, Charles Clifford, Louis De Clercq, Maxime du Camp, Roger Fenton, William Henry Fox Talbot, Jean Baptiste Frénet, John Wheely Gough Gutch, David Octavius Hill …
Begegnung der Bilder

25 Jahre Sammlung Photographie

Kunstmuseum Moritzburg , Halle (DE)
3 Feb 2013 – 7 Apr 2013

with Christian Borchert, Hans Finsler, Hans Finsler, Sam Haskins, Helmar Lerski, Matthias Leupold, Man Ray , Fritz Möller, Oskar Nerlinger, Helmut Newton, Timm Rautert, Evelyn Richter …
Die Geburtsstunde der Fotografie

Meilensteine der Gernsheim-Collection

Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim (DE)
9 Sep 2012 – 24 Feb 2013

with Edouard Baldus, Benjamin Brecknell Turner, George Cruikshank, Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, Philip Henry Delamotte, Roger Fenton, Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau, William Henry Fox Talbot, Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, John Bulkley Greene, Alois Löcherer, Joseph Nicephore Niepce …
Silver, Salt, and Sunlight: Early Photography in Britain and France

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (US)
7 Feb 2012 – 8 Oct 2012

with Edouard Baldus, Julia Margaret Cameron, Roger Fenton, William Henry Fox Talbot, Francis Frith, Gustave Le Gray, Felix Nadar
Fotografie und Individuum - Portraitkonzepte

Eröffnungswochenende in den neuen Räumen 30./31. Jan 2010

Museum Folkwang, Essen (DE)
30 Jan 2010 – 4 Apr 2010

with Hugo Erfurth, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Grit Hachmeister, Edgar Höfs, Helmar Lerski, Lisette Model, Stefan Moses, José Luís Neto, Ken Ohara, Thomas Ruff, August Sander, Otto Steinert
Photography - The First 100 Years: A Survey from the DIA's Collection

Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit (US)
2 Sep 2009 – 3 Jan 2010

with Julia Margaret Cameron, Walker Evans, Lewis Hine, Dorothea Lange, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Edward Weston
The Image Revealed

First Photographs on Paper in Great-Britain (1840-1860)

Musée d'Orsay , Paris (FR)
27 May 2008 – 7 Sep 2008

with Benjamin Brecknell Turner, Charles Clifford, William Collie, Roger Fenton, William Henry Fox Talbot, John Murray, Hugh Owen, John Stewart (1800-1887), Thomas Sutton
MODE:BILDER

Fotografien aus der Sammlung F.C. Gundlach

NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf (DE)
17 Nov 2007 – 24 Mar 2008

with Merry Alpern, Richard Avedon, Guy Bourdin, George Hoyningen-Huene, Martin Kippenberger, Juergen Klauke, Herlinde Koelbl, David LaChapelle, Peter Lindbergh, Madame d'Ora (Dora Kalmus), Robert Mapplethorpe, Will McBride …
The Heartbeat of Fashion

Werke aus der Sammlung F.C. Gundlach

Haus der Photographie, Hamburg (DE)
27 Sep 2006 – 7 Jan 2007

with Alfred Trischtler & Dr. Paul Wolff, Merry Alpern, Ludwig Angerer, Atelier Reutlinger, Paris, Richard Avedon, Martin Badekow, Lillian Bassman, Sibylle Bergemann, Johannes Bernhard, Emil Bieber, Anna & Bernhard Blume, Erwin Blumenfeld …
Figures et portraits

Musée d'Orsay , Paris (FR)
7 Mar 2006 – 4 Jun 2006

with Julia Margaret Cameron, Andre Adolphe-Eugene Disderi, Lewis Hine, Felix Nadar, Edward Steichen
Reflections in time: 19th century portrait photography

Art Gallery NSW, Sydney (AU)
13 Oct 2005 – 11 Dec 2005

with Julia Margaret Cameron, Napoléon Sarony, John Thomson (1837-1921), Baron Raimund von Stillfried-Rathenitz
Iconos: La mejor fotografía y cine de la George Eastman House

Fundación Barrié, Santiago de Compostela (ES)
5 Oct 2004 – 9 Jan 2005

with Eddie Adams, Ansel Adams, Albert Sands Southworth & Josiah Johnson Hawes, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Arthur Ann Segan, Diane Arbus, Eugene Atget, Felix Bonfils, Margaret Bourke-White, Mathew B. Brady, Adolphe Braun, Wynn Bullock …
Photographers of Genius

Celebrating 20 years of collecting

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (US)
16 Mar 2004 – 25 Jul 2004

with Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Diane Arbus, Eugene Atget, Anna Atkins, Hippolyte Bayard, Henry P. Bosse, Brassai, Julia Margaret Cameron, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Thomas Eakins, Walker Evans, Roger Fenton …
The Shadow of Memory

First 50 years of vintage photography

Fox Talbot Mus. of Phot., Chippenham (GB)
1 Dec 2002 – 30 Mar 2003

with William Henry Fox Talbot, Major Wood

Events

Photography from the 19th - 21st Century

Bassenge Fotoauktionen, Berlin (DE)
20 Nov 2025 – 28 Nov 2025

with Lai Afong, Leopold Ahrendts, Merry Alpern, David Armstrong, Eugene Atget, Edouard Baldus, Felice Beato, Auguste Belloc, Guillaume Berggren, Erwin Blumenfeld, Samuel Bourne, Harry Callahan …
Paris Photo 2025 - Group show

HANS P. KRAUS JR, Paris (FR)
13 Nov 2025 – 16 Nov 2025

with Eugene Atget, Bisson Freres, Julia Margaret Cameron, Giacomo Caneva, William Henry Fox Talbot, Charles Nègre, Joseph Blaney Starkweather, Adrien Tournachon
AIPAD 2019 - Master works from the 19th Century

AIPAD, New York (US)
4 Apr 2019 – 7 Apr 2019

with Eugene Atget, Edouard Baldus, Hippolyte Bayard, Bisson Freres, Benjamin Brecknell Turner, Domenico Bresolin, Julia Margaret Cameron, Lewis Carroll, Eugene Cuvelier, Louis-Emile Durandelle, Alexander Gardner, Gustave Le Gray …
Edinburgh Art Festival

Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh (GB)
26 Aug 2018 – 26 Sep 2018

with Ravi Agarwal, Christine Borland, Calum Colvin, Dalziel + Scullion, Tacita Dean, Wendy McMurdo, Maud Sulter, David Williams
Edinburgh Art Festival

Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh (GB)
27 Jul 2017 – 27 Aug 2017

with Kate Davis, Graham Fagen, Roger Fenton, Josef Koudelka, Wendy McMurdo, Stephen Sutcliffe, Shannon Te Ao