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Article: Julia Margaret Cameron: Pioneer Photographer. (Reviews).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2003
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Julia Margaret Cameron: Pioneer Photographer. Joy Melville. Sutton Publishing. [pounds sterling]12.99. 130 pages. ISBN 0-7509-3229-5. Julia Cameron was a product of the Raj. She was born in Calcutta in 1815 and, after schooling in England and Europe, she returned to marry Charles Hay Cameron, a civil servant. She did not return to England until 1848 and it was not until 1863 that she was given a camera by her daughter and from that date she began her career as a photographer in an age in which photography was still in its infancy. She used her connexions with the literary and artistic worlds (friends included G.F. Watts, Henry Taylor, Alfred Tennyson, Carlyle, Thackeray ...