Calotype Photography

Calotype is an important thread within the history of photography. It can be understood as an early photographic process centered on Talbot’s paper-negative method. This movement page brings together photographers, eras, and related contexts so readers can see how the approach developed, where it circulated, and which artists help define its historical position.

Basic facts
MovementCalotype
Photographers2

Overview

An early photographic process centered on Talbot’s paper-negative method.

Photographers

🇬🇧GB1802–1870
David Octavius Hill
Calotype
CalotypePictorialism+1

David Octavius Hill was born in Perth, Scotland, in 1802 — a painter, printmaker, and founding member and long-serving secretary of the Royal Scottish Academy.

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🇬🇧GB1821–1848
Robert Adamson
Calotype
CalotypePortrait Photography

Robert Adamson was born in 1821 in Burnside, Fife, Scotland, the son of a farmer.

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