Saturday, November 30, 2013

A Photographer's Story

I recently visited The Metropolitan Museum of Art. One of the ongoing exhibitions is Julia Margret Cameron's photography (August 19, 2013 - January 5, 2014).

In 1863, when Julia Margret Cameron (1815-1879) was 48, her daughter gave her a camera as a Christmas gift. After a few years, she became a photographer. Today, she is considered as one of the greatest portraitists in the history of photography.

Her models include Alice Liddell (1852-1934), and her nieces May Prinsep (1853-1931) and Julia Jackson (1846-1895). The description of one of Julia Jackson's portraits says that she was her favorite niece.


Pomona (Model: Alice Liddell, 1872)



Christabel (Model: May Prinsep, 1866)

Julia Jackson got married twice. In her second marriage, She had four children. Two of them later became the painter Vanessa Bell (1879-1961), and the author Virginia Woolf (1882-1941).


Julia Jackson (1867)

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