Julia Margaret Cameron was a British photographer well known for her portraits usually of celebrities of that time. She started taking photographs when she was around the age of 48 when her daughter gave her a camera as a present. Starting her photography Carree where just after a year she became a member of the Photographic Societies of London and Scotland. Cameron was born in Calcutta India. She was considered an ugly duckling compared to her sisters and other well known celebrities in her family. Such as her great niece Virgina Woolf who said this when asked about her aunt. "wrote in the 1926 introduction to the Hogarth Press collection of Cameron's photographs, "In the trio [of sisters] where...[one] was Beauty; and [one] Dash; Mrs. Cameron was undoubtedly Talent"." ( look to the bottom of the page for the link to the website where all my information was collected at). Cameron was then married in 1838 to Charles Hay Cameron a man twenty years her Senior. He was also a jurist and member of the Law Commission stationed in Calcutta.
Since Cameron's sister ran a scene for the artistic in Little Holland House Cameron had access to very famous people of the age. People like Charles Darwin, George Frederic Watts, and Ellen Terry all got their portraits done by Cameron. Cameron also did posed pictures which looked like oil paintings. In these paintings Cameron never hid the background even if the person she was depicting in her photograph was supposed to be a literary work.
Here is some of her work I found breathtaking!
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Careful, which image in your collection is clearly not an image taken by M. Cameron?
ReplyDeleteIt's important to find reliable sources for your history blog. it's rarely Wikipedia, try a .org, or .edu for more reliable sources. And photographs offer an even more challenging source check. What happens is that when you do a google search anyone who mentions the artist in a way that is connected to their own contemporary works, it will often populate the google search with the modern works and attribute them to the artist you are researching.