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  Julia Margaret Cameron's Women, Great Men and Others
In "Julia Margaret Cameron's Women," biography served as a key to the psychologization of the otherworldly effects of Cameron's portraiture, and to the interweaving of life and literature in the gendered economy of the Victorian family.
Cameron was firmly embedded in Victorian beliefs about feminine and masculine roles in and outside the home, and saw women through a literary veil complicit in the reproduction of conventional identities--tragic but principled heroines, long-suf fering but dutiful beauties, eternally tender mothers and the like.
It is not simply that Cameron's soft-focus, mussed surfaces mark her distance from the crispness of bourgeois realism's instrumental relation to commercial portraiture (not to mention pornography), but that they mark her distance from other central tropes of the mother-photography relationship, especially as they have been written by photography's theoretical sons.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-61535390.html   (4778 words)

  
  Julia Margaret Cameron - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Julia Margaret Cameron was born Julia Margaret Pattle in Calcutta, India, to James Pattle, a British official of the East India Company, and Adeline de l'Etang, a daughter of French aristocrats.
Cameron was from a family of celebrated beauties, and was considered an ugly duckling among her sisters.
Julia was educated in France, but returned to India in 1838, to marry Charles Hay Cameron, a jurist and member of the Law Commission stationed in Calcutta who was twenty years her senior.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Julia_Margaret_Cameron   (898 words)

  
 Masters of Photography: Julia Margaret Cameron
Julia Margaret Cameron was born Julia Margaret Pattle in Calcutta, India, to James Pattle, a British official of the East India Company, and Adeline de l'Etang, a daughter of French aristocrats.
Julia was educated in France, but returned to India in 1838, to marry Charles Hay Cameron, a jurist and member of the Law Commission stationed in Calcutta who was twenty years her senior.
Cameron was always keen to take pictures, and though her photography is not unconventional it shows a certain spontaneity which was not common in the work of other photographers of the time.
www.masters-of-photography.com /C/cameron/cameron_articles1.html   (798 words)

  
 A History of Photography, by Robert Leggat: CAMERON, Julia Margaret
Julia Margaret Cameron was an English photographer known for her portraits of eminent people of the day, and for her romantic pictures which, despite their technical imperfections, stand the test of time.
Julia Margaret, by this time was aged forty-nine, her children had grown up, and her husband was often abroad on business.
Cameron appealed to a..wide...public by her pefectly original and unique photographic work and subject pictures in which, after a daring fashion of her own, forfeiting the sharpness of definition which ordinary photographers strive for, and which is one of the things artists most dislike in photographic portraiture...she produced a series of heads and groups...
www.rleggat.com /photohistory/history/cameron.htm   (1388 words)

  
 Cameron's biography
Julia Margaret Pattle was born in British India, on June 11, 1815, the daughter of an official in the Bengal Civil Service and a descendant of the French aristocracy.
Cameron's illustrations are culled from the segments entitled "Gareth and Lynette", "Geraint and Enid", "Merlin and Vivien", "Lancelot and Elaine", "The Holy Grail", "Guinevere", and "The Passing of Arthur".
Cameron reveals Guinevere as a soul struggling to maintain her vows and innocence, and the harmony of Camelot, where the dominance of the male is unquestioned.
www.lib.rochester.edu /CAMELOT/auth/cameron.htm   (3617 words)

  
 Museum of Contemporary Photography: Cameron, Julia Margaret
Indeed, Cameron titled another print of this image, “Sadness.” The artist in residence at her sister’s estate, Watts was Cameron’s mentor and the first person to whom Cameron ever showed her photographs.
While Cameron rigorously sought to maintain the distinction between art photography and “professional” photography (she proudly saw herself as part of the former), she was not unconcerned with the market for her work.
Born Julia Margaret Pattle on June 11, 1815 in Calcutta, India, Cameron was educated in France and England, traveled to South Africa with her parents, returned to India with her husband, and took the family to England upon her husband’s retirement in 1848.
www.mocp.org /collections/permanent/cameron_julia_margaret.php   (562 words)

  
 MFA Boston: Exhibition: Julia Margaret Cameron: Victorian Photographer
Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) was one of the most original British photographers of the nineteenth century.
Cameron took up photography later in life, presented at age forty-eight with a camera by her daughter, and became one of the most colorful personalities in the history of photography.
Cameron’s sensitivity to nuances of light and shadow was so profound that she can without exaggeration be described as "Rembrandt with a camera." She influenced the vision of generations of photographers who came after her.
www.mfa.org /exhibitions/sub.asp?key=15&subkey=642   (392 words)

  
 ArtForum: "Julia Margaret Cameron's Women." - photography, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Cameron's photographs repeat Carroll's almost exactly, charting what Carroll wished to stave off: the changes in Liddell's face and body over time, the fact of her not staying forever and ever the same, except in the photographs that fix her perennially against their walls of foliage.
Many of Cameron's housebound photographs of women are marked by intensive repetition, as in the photographs of her niece Julia Prinsep Jackson Duckworth Stephen, in whose individual maturation the stages of maidenhood, marriage, and widowhood are charted.
Julia Jackson is on the show's catalogue cover, serving as an appropriate emblem for "Julia Margaret Cameron's Women," if not of the logic or purpose behind the exclusion of men from its walls as well.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0268/is_7_37/ai_54169962   (941 words)

  
 SFMOMA | Exhibitions | Julia Margaret Cameron's Women   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Julia Margaret Cameron (1815 - 79) is recognized as a pioneer of photography and one of the great portait photographers of all time.
Julia Margaret Pattle was born in Calcutta, India, to James Pattle, a British official of the East India Co., and Adeline de l'Etang, a daughter of French aristocrats.
Cameron remarked that the soft-focus effects of her works were achieved by accident, but she recognized the artistic value of her error and incorporated it into her work.
www.sfmoma.org /exhibitions/exhib_detail/99_exhib_julia_cameron.html   (980 words)

  
 ArtScope.net: Julia Margaret Cameron's Women
Julia Margaret Cameron is one of those early photographers we tend to forget about today, because photography today has been so influenced by Ansel Adams and the Westons.
Julia Margaret Cameron embarked on a path in early photography that aimed to create a realm of photography that used the medium to utmost artistic sensibilities.
Cameron did not have all the niceties of today's darkrooms to produce her art, and washed her prints and plates in their final rinse in a well-- which accounts for the many scratches and dust marks we see in her prints.
www.artscope.net /VAREVIEWS/jmc1098.shtml   (632 words)

  
 Julia Margaret Cameron   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Julia Margaret Cameron was a latecomer to photography; she would not begin to photograph until she was 48 years old.
Cameron was a believer in Transcendentalist thought, which maintained that "individual will and the love of beauty could make the invisible visible." This idea comes through in her work, where she hoped to capture the very essence of her sitters on film.
One of Cameron's primary aims was to aid in the elevation of photography to a high art.
www.cmp.ucr.edu /collections/permanent/object_genres/photographers/women/cameron.html   (265 words)

  
 Julia Margaret Cameron's Women - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - Absolutearts.com
All of Cameron's portraits -- of men and women alike -- reveal her sympathy for humanity and her love of photography, but her portraits of women, in particular, reflect the questioning of identity that is a defining characteristic of the modern era.
Julia Margaret Pattle was born in Calcutta, India, to James Pattle, a British official of the East India Co., and Adeline de l'Etang, a daughter of French aristocrats.
Cameron remarked that the soft-focus effects of her works were achieved by accident, but she recognized the artistic value of her error and incorporated it into her work.
www.absolutearts.com /artsnews/1999/08/27/25753.html   (1015 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Arts | Arts features | First light
Cameron was so pleased with the picture, Annie - My First Success, that she included a print in the albums she made for friends and patrons, partly in celebration of her "divine art", partly in the hope that they'd elicit more sales: her art was already proving expensive.
When Cameron returned to England in 1848, one of her sisters, Sara Prinsep, hosted a salon at her home on the fringes of Kensington, providing Julia with a ready-made society of artists and writers, many of whom would later be her subjects.
Julia Margaret Cameron: The Complete Photographs, by Julian Cox and Colin Ford, at £95 is to be published next month by Thames and Hudson.
arts.guardian.co.uk /features/story/0,11710,876949,00.html   (1393 words)

  
 Inductee Biographies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Julia Margaret Cameron was born June 11, 1815 in Calcutta, India.
Cameron was raised by her maternal grandmother in Versailles and was educated in Europe and England.
Julia would convince friends, household staff, or family to dress in costumes and pose for her to create religious or literary pictorials.
www.iphf.org /inductees/jmcameron.html   (487 words)

  
 Profotos - Julia Margaret Cameron   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Cameron liked the soft focus portraits and the streak marks on her negatives, choosing to work with these irregularites, making them part of her pictures.
Cameron's ambition as a photographer was to "secure [for photography] the character and uses of high art by combining real and ideal, and sacrificing nothing of truth by all possible devotion to poetry and beauty."
In 1873 Cameron sent her sister Maria (Mia) Jackson a partially empty photo album, asking her sister to collaborate with her on the project in the years to come by adding images, as she sent them, in the places and the sequence she described.
www.profotos.com /education/referencedesk/masters/masters/juliamargaretcameron/juliamargaretcameron.shtml   (695 words)

  
 Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Julia Margaret Cameron, the photographer, finds a place on these pages because she was the 'Pre-Raphaelite photographer', and produced illustrative work using photography of poems by Tennyson and others, in the same way that many artists painted and illustrated them.
Julia Margaret Cameron's career as a photographer was not that long - only a dozen years or so, because in 1875 she returned with her husband to Ceylon, and the family tea plantation.
Julia Margaret Cameron's work has been reproduced interminably as postcards, and original prints can be seen at the National Portrait Gallery.
myweb.tiscali.co.uk /speel/otherart/cameron.htm   (412 words)

  
 Women Photographers - Julia Margaret Cameron
Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-79) is one of the most important figures in the history of photography.
Cameron’s images were strongly influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite painters – Millais, Rossetti, Holman Hunt and Watts – and nowhere more so than in her costume pieces illustrating religious, literary, poetic and mythological themes, for example her Arthurian photographs taken to illustrate Tennyson’s Idylls of the King (1874).
Julia Margaret Pattle was born in Calcutta in 1815.
www.womenphotographers.com /shownews.cfm?item=7   (955 words)

  
 Julia Margaret Cameron   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Julia Margaret Cameron (11 June 1815 - 26 January 1879) is one of the first female photographers who was born in Calcutta in 1815.
Cameron was part of a large family, the fourth of ten children, and had a large family of her own.
Because of the newness of photography as a practice, she was free to make her own rules and not be bound to convention.
nation.ittefaq.com /artman/publish/printer_26236.shtml   (233 words)

  
 Imperfectly Modern Women / Ambiguities connect Julia Margaret Cameron's Victorian portraits with the present
The sharp formal and technical intelligence of Cameron's work are another surprise of ``Julia Margaret Cameron's Women.'' Her experimentation went far beyond costume, pose and literary pretext to lighting, focus and printing, which was always a small feat in the early years of darkroom chemistry.
Julia Jackson is additionally fascinating for having been the mother of Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf by her second husband, Leslie Stephen.
Cameron, a formidable character by all accounts, mingled with the cultural elite of Victorian Britain after settling with her husband on the Isle of Wight, which had the reputation of an intellectual enclave.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/1999/08/26/DD25344.DTL&type=art   (1067 words)

  
 ArtandCulture Artist: Julia Margaret Cameron   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Cameron's portraits of men differ greatly from her images of women.
Cameron possessed just the right touch of eccentricity to make her the perfect photographer of her era.
Cameron assembled photographic albums to give to friends and relatives as an invitation for them to join her creative pursuits.
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 Julia Margaret Cameron   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Cameron found an outlet for her intense, yet sociable nature, in the London milieu of her sister Sarah Prinsep.
In 1860, the Camerons moved to the Isle of Wight to be near the Tennysons.
Cameron's long years of intellectual apprenticeship in artistic circles meant that she brought to her hobby a remarkable sureness of vision.
www.libfl.ru /pre-raph/Cameron.html   (262 words)

  
 Julia Margaret Cameron Summary
Cameron was distinguished among her sisters by her boundless generosity, her ardent enthusiasms, and later, by her artistic talents.
Cameron is often credited for her instrumental role in gathering together the members of this illustrious group.
May Hillier, the parlor maid that Cameron was said to have chosen for her beauty, posed as the Greek poet Sappho and as the Madonna with Child (the infant that Hillier held was probably a grandchild of Cameron's).
www.bookrags.com /Julia_Margaret_Cameron   (2557 words)

  
 Guardian | Julia Margaret Cameron
According to her son, the dying word of Julia Margaret Cameron - the Victorian photographer, best known for her pre-Raphaelite-tinged portraits of long-tressed women and faery-like children - was "beautiful".
These images are at the heart of Cameron's aesthetic; they are the quiet stars of this comprehensive survey of her work.
But they are biographically interesting, reminding us that Cameron was decidedly a woman of her colonial time and class (she refers to locals in Ceylon as "natives", just as she had called people on the Isle of Wight "peasants").
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4600500-110430,00.html   (423 words)

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