British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) has been described as one of the Finest portraitists of the nineteenth century-in any medium. Raised in a well-connected and creative family, Cameron led an unconventional life for a woman of the Victorian age. After devoting herself to an artistic and literary salon at her home on the Isle of Wight and raising eleven children, Cameron took up photography in her late forties.
Over the next fourteen years, she produced more than a thousand strikingly original and often controversial images. Her searching portraits of her friends and acquaintances, including Alfred Tennyson and Charles Darwin, have been called the world’s first close-ups.
May Day, 1866Circe, 1865The Five Foolish Virgins, 1864Il Penseroso, 1864–1865Long-Suffering, Gentleness, GoodnessSummer Days, 1866Sappho, 1865The Passing Of Arthur, 1875. From Illustrations to Tennyson’s Idylls of the King, and Other Poems, Volume II.Kate Dore, 1862Paul and Virginia, 1864Mrs. Herbert Duckworth, 1872Annie; ‘My first success,’ 1864Lady Adelaide Talbot, May 1865Lady Adelaide Talbot, May 1865Christiana Fraser-Tytler, c. 1864-1865Sappho, 1865Christabel, 1866Beatrice 1866Julia Jackson 1867Hosanna 1865Portrait of Julia Margaret Cameron by her son, about 1870Vivien and Merlin from Illustrations to Tennyson’s Idylls of the King, 1874Lady Elcho / A Dantesque Vision, 1865Resting in Hope; La Madonna Riposata, 1864St. Agnes, 1864The Dream, 1869Henry Taylor, October 10, 1867Charles Darwin, 1868Portrait of Herschel, April 1867Henry Cole, 1868
(Photos by Julia Margaret Cameron)
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