Julia margaret cameron

“The beauty of the heroine is evident to every one,” Julia Margaret Cameron wrote as the postscript of a letter accompanying the first copy of Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s Idylls of the King, which she illustrated with photographs. She was speaking specifically of her image Vivien and Merlin, but, as evidenced in a show of her […]

280/365 Welcome back everyone! Today I wanted to share this great documentary on a the inspirational Annie Leibovitz. I’ve seen a couple of them, and even posted some a while back, but they always seem to disappear. Watch it while you can and enjoy! In the documentary they go into saying that her exhibition was […]

Julia Margaret Cameron photographer biography on All About Photo. Julia Margaret Cameron life and work, current exhibitions, publications, agencies and galleries.

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Pictorialists took the medium of photography and reinvented it as an art form, focusing on beauty, tonality, and composition.

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Venus Chiding Cupid and Removing His Wings (detail), Julia Margaret Cameron, 1872

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Julia Margaret Cameron empezó su carrera fotográfica a la edad de cuarenta y ocho años en Inglaterra, en 1864 a sólo 20 años de haberse descubierto el proceso fotográfico, un tiempo heroico para la fotografía y para la mujer que quería realizarse como persona y como artista. Su técnica se basó en la iluminación natural y el trabajo sin retoques. Se la considera antecedente del pictorialismo e investigadora del efecto floue