"JULIA MARGARET CAMERON: 19TH CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHER OF GENIUS" par Colin FORD. Editions National Portrait Gallery, Londres. 2003. Imprimé en Italie. in-4, dos droit, couverture souple cartonnée photo. 212 pages. Texte en anglais, illustré de plus de 120 reproductions photographiques, noir & blanc, in-texte et hors texte, par Julia Margaret Cameron.  Ouvrage réalisé dans le cadre de l'exposition éponyme itinérante à la National Portrait Gallery, Londres, du 06 Février au 26 Mai 2003 ; au National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford, du 27 Juin au 14 Septembre 2023 ; au J.P. Getty Museum, Los Angeles, du 21 Octobre 2003 au 11 Janvier 2004.

 

"Julia Margaret Cameron created astounding photographs, both in quality and subject, photographs that 'startle the eye with wonder and delight,' observed the Pre-Raphaelite painter George Frederic Watts. A Victorian wife and mother, Cameron began to practice photography late in life. From her 'first success", a haunting study of 9-year-old Annie Philpot in the early 1860s, she went on to create searching portraits of the most eminent figures of the Victorian age, including Sir John Herschel, Alfred Tennyson, Charles Darwin, Anne Thackeray Ritchie and Ellen Terry. Cameron's transition from enthusiastic novice to accomplished artist is revealed in this sensitive study of the woman behind the camera. Colin Ford's unique appraisal of her life and work firmly establishes Julia Margaret Cameron as one of the greatest photographers of all time".

 

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