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Julia Margaret Cameron was an English 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.
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culture · English photographer (1815–1879) · photographer · artist · writer · also Julia Margaret Cameron, Julia Margaret Pattle Cameron, Julia M. Cameron, Julia Margaret née Pattle, Julia Margaret nee Pattle, J. M. Cameron
Born 11 June 1815 · Died 26 January 1879 · Q230120
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“When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavoured to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer.”
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“You were my first teacher and to you I owe all the first experience and insights.”
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English Heritage unveiled a Blue Plaque in Cameron's honour on 10 Chesham Place, Belgravia, London, where she lived from 1848 in a house designed by Thomas Cubitt
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The New Yorker: Arresting Beauty: Julia Margaret Cameron
Hyperallergic: The Brilliance and Privilege of Jane Austen and Julia Margaret Cameron
Observer: Julia Margaret Cameron
Cameron was inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum
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Cameron's Norman Album from 1869 was deemed by the UK government's advisory committee on the export of works of art to be of "outstanding aesthetic importance and significance to the study of the history of photography a
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Mike Weaver disputed this analysis in his book Julia Margaret Cameron 1815–1879, where he elevated Cameron's tableaux as sincere religious interpretations
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Framed her idea of genius and beauty "within a specifically Christian framework, as indicative of the sublime and the sacred"
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Died 1879-01-26.
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After a short visit to England, Cameron fell ill with a dangerous chill
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Tennyson asked Cameron to create illustrations for a new edition of his Idylls of the King, a popular series of poems about Arthurian legends
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Created The Kiss of Peace, which she considered her finest work
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“My husband from first to last has watched every picture with delight, and it is my daily habit to run to him with every glass upon which a fresh glory is newly stamped, and to listen to his enthusiastic applause.”
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Became a member of the Photographic Society of Scotland and arranged to have her prints sold through the London dealers P
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And 1866, and an honourable mention in Dublin
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The Photographic Journal reviewed her images, commenting:
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After an extended visit to Tennyson at Freshwater, Cameron bought a house next door
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When he visited the Camerons and photographed their children and the children of her neighbours, the Tennysons, before Cameron took up the camera in earnest
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Charles Cameron retired and invested in coffee and rubber plantations in Ceylon, becoming one of the island's largest landowners
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Was writing poetry, had started a novel, and published a translation of Gottfried August Bürger's Leonora
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Where they took part in London's artistic and cultural scene
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Sent her two dozen calotypes and daguerreotypes, the first photographs she ever saw
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Told Cameron about the invention of photography
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After suffering several illnesses, Julia visited the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa with her parents to recover
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Born 1815-06-11.
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