"JULIA MARGARET CAMERON 1815-1879" par Mike WEAVER. Editions John Hansard Gallery & The Herbert Press Ltd. 1984. Imprimé en Angleterre. in-8 carré, dos droit, couverture souple cartonnée photo. 160 pages. Textes en anglais, illustré de très nombreuses reproductions photographiques noir & blanc in-texte et hors texte par Julia Margaret Cameron. Ouvrage réalisé dans le cadre l'exposition éponyme itinérante en 1984 & 1985.

 

"It is remarkable that the greatest British pictorial photographer of the nineteenth century should have been a woman. John Stuart Mill had said that women could make a literature of their own only if they inhabited a different country from men, and never read men's books. Yet Julia Margaret Cameron entered the world of the Royal Academy and Salon painters with confidence. In photography she had found a medium, however, which was still unsure of its claims on art, and such models as existed for it were flouted by this woman whom men felt, at least at first, that they need not take seriously. They would have preferred her to have a sharper focus and narrower ambitions, but she gave them soft focus and large ambitions. They sniped at her technique, and they assumed she did not want pay or publication. Because she was a traditionalist in both art and religion she internalized her own social role within the conventional framework of relations between men and women…"

 

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