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Article: "Julia Margaret Cameron's Women.".(photography, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois)
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- Artforum International
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- March 1, 1999
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ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
The exhibition "Julia Margaret Cameron's Women" could be faulted for the exclusivity of its focus on the female sex. It is true that Cameron portrayed the men of mark of her day: Carlyle and Tennyson, Darwin and Herschel, Watts and Rossetti number among her pantheon of patriarchs. Thus, it is also true that in the absence of those bearded eminences, the sheer worldly ambition that drove her to photograph is not conveyed as well as it might be.
On the other hand, women were the main object of Cameron's eccentric zeal, and the exhibition, curated by Sylvia Wolf of the Art Institute, conveys that admirably. Beards may be largely ...