Saturday, February 13, 2010

Julia Margaret Cameron - Scenes of Pre-Raphaelite grace

Pre-Raphaelite study, 1870
(May Prinsep)


(Hatty Campbell, I believe)

The Dream, 1869
(Mary Hillier)

'My Aspirations are to ennoble Photography and to secure for it the character and uses of High Art by combining the real and Ideal and sacrificing nothing of the Truth by all possible devotion to Poetry and beauty.' - Julia Margaret Cameron to Sir John Herschel, 31 December, 1864

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Julia Margaret Cameron biography from the V&A Museum - Link

Annals Of My Glass House
An autobiography by Julia Margaret Cameron
Text compiled and annotated by Violet Hamilton - Link
From the 2001-2002 National Gallery of Victoria exhibition - Link

Dimbola Lodge, Galleries and Photographic Museum,
Isle of Wight - Link

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