Julia Margaret Cameron- the experimental photographer whose camera created art
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Julia Margaret Cameron- the experimental photographer whose camera created art

Cameron began photography at the age of 48

Julia Margaret Cameron- the experimental photographer whose camera created art

They say life is temporary, but some carve their name beyond their years through the power of art. One such artist was Julia Margaret Cameron whose camera has immortalized her in the realm of portrait photography. Her delicate close-ups of prominent Victorian men, as well as illustrative images illustrating characters from mythology, Christianity, and literature, were mesmerizing and unprecedented for the time. She is also known to capture images of compassionate moments between mothers and children.

Julia Margaret Cameron (11 June 1815 – 26 January 1879) was a British photographer who is regarded as one of the nineteenth century's most influential portraitists. She grew up in Calcutta, India, as her father was an employee of the British East India Company.

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Cameron began photography at the relatively late age of 48 after her daughter gave her a camera as a present to fill her solitude. Some years after starting her photographic voyage, she wrote, “From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour, it has become to me as a living thing, with voice and memory and creative vigour.”

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She developed innovative iconographic visuals inspired by tableaux vivants, theatre, 15th-century Italian painters, and the work of her creative contemporaries, and speedily produced a lot of material depicting the genius, beauty, and innocence of the men, women, as well as kids who visited her studio at Freshwater. Her career as a photographer was brief but lucrative. During 12 years, she has produced roughly 900 photos.

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Cameron's approach was divided at the time. Her delicately focused and raw shots were panned by critics, who thought her descriptive photographs were unprofessional and overacting. Her portraits of well-known persons (such as Henry Taylor, Charles Darwin, and Sir John Herschel) have repeatedly received appreciation, both during her lifetime and in subsequent evaluations of her work. Her photographs have been called "incredibly dramatic" and "completely original," yet she is known for creating the very first close-ups in the world of photography.

Julia Margaret was the fourth of 10 children in a large family. According to accounts, every one of her sisters had a nickname focused on a characteristic. "Beauty" was one of her sisters' nicknames. Julia was known as "Talent." Julia developed a fixation with idealised beauty as a result of this.

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Cameron later established her own salon in the coastal resort of Freshwater, Isle of Wight, visited by notable Victorians, after first establishing herself among Calcutta's Anglo-Indian upper-class and later among London's intellectual elite.

Over her time, while she was criticized by some, some saw her as an unorthodox and innovative photographer. Historians, enthusiasts, and analysts of photography now believe Julia Margaret Cameron to be one of the world's crucial masters and practitioners of photographic artwork today.