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I wait ( "I hope " ), 1864

Julia Margaret Cameron

A OME time, by showing this blog an image that was created * , I discussed the pictorial British (who had been mentioned to me a source of inspiration in my work). Today I want to talk, albeit briefly, a woman - great artist and great photographer - which work is part of that stream, I mean Julia Margaret Cameron, who is, along with fellow teacher lens, Lewis Carroll ** (great writer, notably mediocre poet and mathematician, author of Alice in Wonderland ) one of the most remarkable artistic landscape of Victorian England.

Ellen Terry

*** age of sixteen, 1864

Well, start ...

Poor Joe ( "Poor Joe " ), O SCAR R EJLANDER

Julia Margaret Cameron was born in India in Calcutta in 1815. Surely, I could not make a claim to history, but for that forty-eight years old he discovered his true vocation motivated by a camera that had given her daughter. Belonging to the rich aristocratic Anglo-India (his father was an officer of the East Indian Company and married a landowner twenty years older than her who had a large tea plantation), his life seemed destined to an idle without brightness. A life that comfortable than otherwise would allow contact with some of the most remarkable personalities of his time. In the Isle of Wight, England, where he settled with her husband after 1860, known to Lord Alfred Tenysson and later to Oscar Rejlander and Lewis Carroll. Tenysson was, then, and considered one of the most important poets of his generation. Oscar Rejlander, photography pioneer, had already acquired celebrity and, as Carroll, a disciple of the former, its recognition as an artist, photographer (as Julia Cameron) would be posthumous ... She would be a student of both. Tenysson one of their models (and later, will also charge the artwork of one of his books) ...

Portrait of Alice Liddell ****, C L EWIS ROPE

A year after having his first camera, Julia Margaret Cameron consign the satisfaction of having obtained " his first success, his first picture " and that same year would be accepted by the Society Photo London and Scotland.

Annie, my first sucesso ( " Annie, m i first hit" ), January 29, 1864

Despite the obvious charm of his pictures and succeed in life get a medium-recognition (sometimes outside their homeland), besides the support of his friends artists or intellectuals and professional photographers Much of the criticism provided always considered a minor artist, so for example, never ceased to reproach their obvious technical failure and lack of cleanliness (often wore their badges stained or scratched). Its shortcomings, the most mentioned was the blur of his photographs, the product of long exposures of the time (which causes your model to move). This blurring, argue some, it was deliberate and is largely what gives poetic charm to your portraits. But whether accidental or deliberate purpose, his genius for composition and capturing scenes full of harmony and charm, is now undeniable (... By the way, allow me a break, it should be noted that the effect 'flou' , ie one for which was highly criticized , become his own words [as he confesses in his memoirs ***** ] systematically searched in effect, leaving settled all views on ) ...

Cupid ( "Cupid " ), circa (?)

Equipped with a great love of beauty and possessed of a spirit of great finesse and high aesthetic sensibility, she was unattractive in her attire and worked turned into a real prison, in turn, transform - in his country house - , the coal deposit in the darkroom and in the chicken study . Their high social position, moreover, would grant the privilege to ignore the criticism and stay true to his aesthetic ideals. At a time when photography was still a nascent art, she did not hesitate to consider it worth placed next to the poetry or painting. Not incidentally, have been precisely his painter friends who have been praised more, disdainful, some of them, the technique at the expense of expression.

Study of the Cenci , 1868

The two pictures above and the one that showed below, illustrate precisely some of the mistakes that both he reproached, damaged plates, portraits poorly focused, poorly lit models ... And yet, its value can not be rejected.

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This is for me a special force ...

The echo ( " The echo " ), 1868

And, what about this one? ...

Ellen Terry, 1864

This has a particular charm of era ...

May day ( "May Day " ), circa (?)

All , as has been seen, are very close to the sensitivity we now call kitsch and influence the mindset of his time is more than debt notoria.Su Pre-Raphaelite painting, moreover, that meant a return to the idealized world of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (and saw in art a means of moral elevation) can not refuse.

submit, finally, these other three:

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Gardener's Daughter ( " Gardener's Daughter '), 1873

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already to conclude ...

extraordinary creative Tan pass away, finally, the Island of Ceylon in the year 1879, he had abandoned in his later years, his passion for photography and his legacy (quickly forgotten after his death) would be released but in later years via her great-niece of the writer Virginia Woolf and the literary group of Bloomsburry . Today, more than his talent is recognized and is considered a pioneer at the same time one of the greatest photographers of all time.

__________ * See publications relating to the August 7, 2010, and January 14, 2011.

** Currently, British writer is considered one of the most important pioneers of photography and as the greatest portraitist of his time child.

*** Ellen Terry, who began as a child actress was a model also Carroll and at some point in his life came into being linked romantically with the poet (in fact denied by her).

**** Alice Pleasance Lidell , daughter of the Dean of the University of Oxford, was the 'muse girl' most important English writer. As an adult, would pose for the lens Julia Cameron. *****

Annals of my glass house .