A new book has just been published showing the photos taken by David Octavius Hill, Robert Adamson and Jessie Mann in the 1840s of the fisher folk of Newhaven, near Edinburgh.
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‘Pioneering photography’: early images of Newhaven’s fishers – in pictures
When David Hill and Robert Adamson captured the lives of a small Scottish community in the 1840s, were they creating the first ever social documentary series? A fascinating new book makes the case
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