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

Julia Margaret Cameron's Photograph of Alice Liddell as Alethea

Alice Liddell as Alethea, 1872
Julia Margaret Cameron
http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/cameron/975637phfa.shtml
This was shown as Lot 56 from the 2001 Sotheby's auction, Lewis Carroll's Alice: The Photographs, Books, Papers and Personal Effects of Alice Liddell and Her Family ...
http://browse.sothebys.com/?&cat=1&event_id=21625&g=1&i=1&sale_id=L01912&is_past=1
(The catalogue lists it as, "Alice cast as Pomona, Roman divinity of the trees" - instead of Alethea)
Lot 57 - King Lear and His Three Daughters
Lot 58 - Letter from Sir Henry Taylor, about Julia Margaret Cameron's photographs of the Liddell sisters

Photographs of Julia Margaret Cameron - and a painting by George Frederic Watts

Julia Margaret Cameron

by George Frederic Watts

oil on canvas, 1850-1852

Julia Margaret Cameron
by Henry Herschel Hay Cameron, 1870

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From the National Portrait Gallery (UK)
Five more photographs of Julia Margaret Cameron

Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879)

A video from tranmere123
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj04gzJKJl8
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"I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied. Its difficulty enhanced the value of the pursuit. I began with no knowledge of the art. I did not know where to place my dark box, how to focus my sitter, and my first picture I effaced to my consternation by rubbing my hand over the filmy side of the glass..."
Julia Margaret Cameron from her book, Annals of my Glass House
http://www.rleggat.com/photohistory/history/cameron.htm

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"Annals of my glass house, an unfinished autobiography written in 1874, is a record of Victorian photographer Julia Margaret Cameron's first ten years of work. It was first published posthumously by her youngest son, Henry Herschel Hay Cameron, in a catalogue to the exhibition "Mrs. Cameron's Photographs" at the Camera Gallery, London, in 1889."
http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/cameron/artanna.shtml
"This version was researched, compiled and annotated by Violet Hamilton in 1996, for publication in a catalogue of the same name."