Photography curator from London’s Victoria & Albert Museum to talk on Cameron
View(s):On Monday, February 17 at 6 p.m, Dr Marta Weiss, Curator of Photography at the Victoria & Albert Museum, UK will present an illustrated introduction to Julia Margaret Cameron’s life and career ‘Arresting Beauty: The Photographs of Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–1879)’, at the Lionel Wendt Theatre.
Julia Margaret Cameron was one of the most innovative photographers of the 19th century and one of the most influential portrait photographers of all time.
Cameron was born in Calcutta in 1815 to a French mother and British father who worked for the East India Company. Her husband, Charles Hay Cameron, was also involved in colonial administration in Ceylon. The Camerons eventually settled on the Isle of Wight, off the South coast of England, where they were neighbours – and good friends – with the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and associated with the artists and intellectuals the area attracted. It was there that Cameron took up photography in 1864, aged 48.
She quickly established her signature style and in the next decade produced thousands of photographs, exhibited internationally, and published two books. In 1875 Cameron and her husband relocated to Ceylon, joining four of their sons. Her photography included some remarkable portraits of local people. Julia Margaret Cameron died in Dickoya in 1879.
While harshly criticised by her photographic contemporaries, Cameron had many admirers in literary and artistic circles. These included Henry Cole, the founding director of the South Kensington Museum, which became the V&A. Today the V&A holds nearly 1000 photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron, along with two archival treasures: Cameron’s only surviving camera lens and the manuscript of Annals of My Glass House, the incomplete autobiography she wrote before leaving for Ceylon in 1875.
Entrance is free for this talk hosted by The Lionel Wendt Memorial Fund. To register: https://forms.gle/6YUA4tp4Jc2bKWWD8
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