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Expanded Photography Bob Cotton 83/146 Hill and Adamson: First General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland: the signing of the
act of separation and deed of demission, May 1843. https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/specialcollections/col- lectionsa-z/hilladamson/disruptionpicture/
So the General Assembly is an oil painting. The Canadian master photographer, William Notman used a similar methodology in the 1870s, but this time he composited the individual photo-prints as a collage, then he hand-coloured the collage using oil-paints.
William Notman, Skating Carnival, Victoria Rink, Montreal (painted composite photograph) 1870.
“Skating Carnival was Notman’s most ambitious undertaking in composite photography - a tech- nique he is credited with developing and popularizing. The process began with an overall design for the finished picture, and then individual or small group portraits were made—prints of which would eventually be cut out and pasted onto a composite negative and then printed again. Skating Carnival was made from more than three hundred individual photographs, and its creation makes evident Notman’s keen sense of marketing. In one fell swoop he advertised his studio and its im- pressive access to key events, while appealing to the social aspirations of both his established and potential clientele.” (Sarah Parsons: William Notman Life and Work https://aci-iac.ca/)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Skating_carnival_Montreal_by_Notman.jpg
OK - it’s not Derby Day, but technically interesting as a precursor to the range of photographic technics in early XXth century - heralded by collage, photomontage, photograms and camera-less photography - which we’ll look at next...