The first photography shops in St Andrews
Photograph of St Andrews by Archibald Downie. © Lawrence Levy Photographic Collection. All rights reserved. Image courtesy of the University of St Andrews Library, [ALB-17-11.2].” St Andrews may be the first town to ever be fully photographed.[1] Some of those first photographs are still in St Andrews, while reminders of this photographic heritage are littered throughout town. For example, The Adamson bar on South Street takes its name from a celebrated local photographer, John Adamson. Adamson worked with Henry Fox Talbot, who developed the influential “calotype” process of...
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