Hill and Adamson were an arist and photographer team. Hill, wanted to document the separation of the Free Church of Scotland from the Church of Scotland, but being an artist, he planned to draw each of the 400 ministers present at this meeting. Hills friend, Sir David Brewster, seeing the difficulties in this plan, introduced Hill and Adamson. Adamson was a barely established photographer in Edinburugh. He knew Brewster, a scientist friend of William Henry Fox Talbot, through his brother, Dr John Adamson, and it was he that introduced Adamson to photography
Adamson and Hill were an excellent pairing, however. Hill directed the subjects, and Adamson took the photo. Together they photographed several series of photographs - nearly 3000 photographs - until Adamsons death in 1848, just 5 years after they met, and aged only 26.
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/hlad/hd_hlad.htm
http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/specialcollections/collectionsa-z/hilladamson/hilladamsonbiographies/
Napoleon Sarony - photographer and lithographer
"lithographer and budding photographer recognized the opportunity presented by the ascent of theater in society and the innovations in modern photography and launched a studio on Broadway in 1866. Over the next thirty years he photographed virtually every star of the New York stage. Upon his death, it is estimated that he had more than 40,000 negatives of show business personalities in his possession."
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA02/volpe/theater/theater/sarony.html
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