Alexander Seton McGlashan b. 26 May 1811

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A professional photographer who worked with Octavius Hill of the famous Hill-Adamson calotype partnership in his native Scotland. There are only a few surviving prints of photographs taken while in Australia.
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professional photographer, was producing calotypes from his studio at 7 Collins Street, Melbourne, in 1854-55, although no salted paper prints are known. Extant Australian photographs are stereographs of Melbourne (1855, ML) and an albumen print of a Melbourne scene (George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography, Rochester, New York). Back home at Scotland in 1860-62, McGlashan worked with the surviving member of the famous Hill-Adamson calotype partnership, David Octavius Hill, being the photographer for Hill’s Some Contributions towards the Use of Photography (Edinburgh 1862). The Hill portrait which won a medal from the Photographic Society of Scotland in 1862 was presumably taken by McGlashan, Hill being the 'artist’ rather than the technician in his three photographic partnerships. These also were albumen prints.

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  • 1860 - 1862 Scotland, UK
  • 1854 - 1857 7 Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria
  • 1860 - 1862 Scotland, UK
  • 1854 - 1855 7 Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria
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