Today we are researching a little about a female Photographer Named, Julia Margaret, Born 1815 died 1879. Julia has a remarkable legacy she would have to be one of the most import artists in Photography in the 19th Century. Her powerful Portraits are a tribute to her craft, Julia would pose her subjects into historic and biblical, using family friends whoever she could convince. Julia was criticised for her unconventional procedure but was honored for the beauty of her composition and her conviction that photography was an art form
Julia Margaret Pattle was born in Calcutta, her father was an East India Company official and her mother descended from French aristocracy.
Educated mainly in France, she returned to India in 1834.
In 1836, while convalescing from an illness in the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, she met the British astronomer Sir John Herschel (1792 – 1871), who was surveying the skies of the southern hemisphere.
In 1842, Herschel introduced her to photography, sending her examples of the new invention. He remained a life-long friend and correspondent on technical photographic matters.
During the same stay in South Africa, Julia Margaret met Charles Hay Cameron (1795–1880), 20 years her senior, a reformer of Indian law and education who would later invest in coffee plantations in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).
They married in Calcutta in 1838 and she became a prominent hostess in colonial society.
A decade later, the Camerons moved to England. By then they had four children; two more were born in England. Several of Julia Margaret’s sisters were already living there and had established literary, artistic and social connections. Staying first in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, then moving to East Sheen and Putney in London.
In 1860 the Camerons settled in Freshwater, on the Isle of Wight, where Julia Margaret later began making photographs. They lived there until 1875 when they moved to Ceylon to be near four of their sons and the family’s coffee plantations.
Most of this information was gathered on this web address
http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/exhibitions/julia-margaret-cameron/julia-margaret-cameron-biography/
'Mrs. Herbert Duckworth' (1872) © Julia Margaret
“Portrait of Sir John Herschel”, April 1867
A Study after the Manner of Francia, 1865, by Julia Margaret Cameron.
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Julia Margaret Pattle was born in Calcutta, her father was an East India Company official and her mother descended from French aristocracy.
Educated mainly in France, she returned to India in 1834.
In 1836, while convalescing from an illness in the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, she met the British astronomer Sir John Herschel (1792 – 1871), who was surveying the skies of the southern hemisphere.
In 1842, Herschel introduced her to photography, sending her examples of the new invention. He remained a life-long friend and correspondent on technical photographic matters.
During the same stay in South Africa, Julia Margaret met Charles Hay Cameron (1795–1880), 20 years her senior, a reformer of Indian law and education who would later invest in coffee plantations in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).
They married in Calcutta in 1838 and she became a prominent hostess in colonial society.
A decade later, the Camerons moved to England. By then they had four children; two more were born in England. Several of Julia Margaret’s sisters were already living there and had established literary, artistic and social connections. Staying first in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, then moving to East Sheen and Putney in London.
In 1860 the Camerons settled in Freshwater, on the Isle of Wight, where Julia Margaret later began making photographs. They lived there until 1875 when they moved to Ceylon to be near four of their sons and the family’s coffee plantations.
Most of this information was gathered on this web address
http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/exhibitions/julia-margaret-cameron/julia-margaret-cameron-biography/
'Mrs. Herbert Duckworth' (1872) © Julia Margaret
“Portrait of Sir John Herschel”, April 1867
A Study after the Manner of Francia, 1865, by Julia Margaret Cameron.
https://www.google.com.+julia+margaret+cameron+portraits
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