Julia Margaret Cameron : The Complete Photographs

Published to accompany the major retrospective exhibition in London and Bradford during 2003, this catalogue raisonne outlines and illustrates the life and work of the British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-79). She took up the camera at the age of 48 and made over 1000 images over the next 14 years. Living at the height of the Victorian era, Cameron was anything but conventional, experimenting with the relatively new medium of photography, promoting her own art through exhibition and sales, and pursuing the eminent men of her age - for example, Alfred Tennyson, John Herschel and Thomas Carlyle - as subjects for her lens. This volume gathers together every one of Cameron's known images and, in addition, there is information on her life and times, initial experiments, artistic approach, techniques, small-format images, albums, commercial strategies, sitters and sources of inspiration. Also provided is a selected bibliography of publications on Cameron, a list of both contemporary and modern exhibitions of her work, and a summary of important collections where her pictures can be found.