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Julia Margaret Cameron (née Pattle; 11 June 1815 Calcutta – 26 January 1879 Kalutara, Ceylon) was a British photographer. She became known for her portraits of celebrities of the time, and for photographs with Arthurian and other legendary or heroic themes. Cameron's photographic career was short, spanning eleven years of her life (1864–1875).
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‘Cupid & Psyche’ was created in 1865 by Julia Margaret...
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‘Beatrice’ was created in 1866 by Julia Margaret Cameron in...
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‘Julia Stephen Born Julia Jackson’ was created in 1867 by...
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‘Charles Hay Cameron’ was created in 1864 by Julia Margaret...
- Study of King David
‘Study of King David’ was created in 1866 by Julia Margaret...
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‘Henry Thoby Prinsep’ was created in 1866 by Julia Margaret...
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Artwork Details. Title: Julia Jackson. Artist: Julia Margaret Cameron (British (born India), Calcutta 1815–1879 Kalutara, Ceylon) Date: 1867. Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative. Dimensions: 27.4 x 20.6 cm (10 13/16 x 8 1/8 in.) Classification: Photographs. Credit Line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1996.
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Julia Margaret Cameron (née Pattle; 11 June 1815 – 26 January 1879) was a British photographer who is considered one of the most important portraitists of the 19th century. She is known for her soft-focus close-ups of famous Victorians and for illustrative images depicting characters from mythology, Christianity, and literature.
Julia Margaret Cameron is known for painterly photographic portraits of some of the most celebrated figures in Victorian England and for staged allegorical images drawn from poetry, literature, and the Bible. She began photographing in the 1860s at the age of forty-eight, after being given a camera by her daughter and son-in-law.
Julia Margaret Cameron British, born India. April 1867. Not on view. Sir John Herschel (1792–1871) was Victorian England’s preeminent scientist, astronomer, and mathematician, considered the equal of Sir Isaac Newton. Cameron met him in 1836 in Capetown, South Africa, where she was recuperating from illness and he was charting the stars of ...
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New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Collection of Alfred Stieglitz," May 18–July 16, 1978. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Paul Strand and His Contemporaries," February 10–May 31, 1998. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Julia Margaret Cameron," August 19, 2013–January 5, 2014.