Julia Margaret Cameron

English, born India

1815, Kolkata, India
1879, Kalutara, Ceylon [now Sri Lanka]

Portrait of photographer Julia Margaret Cameron

Henry Herschel Hay Cameron (English, 1852 - 1911), Julia Margaret Cameron, 1874; albumen silver print; 25.4 x 21.4 cm (10 x 8 7/16 in.); The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program

Julia Margaret Cameron took up the camera at the age of forty-eight, converting a chicken coop into a photo studio and enlisting friends to pose as figures from myths and legends. Critics of the time were openly hostile to her unorthodox methods, yet she persevered. Learn the story behind Cameron’s otherworldly portraits.

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