This book looks at the life, Bohemian philosophy, and unorthodox techniques of Victorian photographer Julia Margaret Cameron. Cameron broke away from the traditional style of stiff portraits and became one of the most original portraitists in the history of photography. Examples of her greatest works are highlighted. Bibliography.

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The story of British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron and her exotic bohemian life. ( )

Julia Cameron was raised in India and France at a time when women were groomed for marriage and the only career paths that might have been open to them were as a governess or nurse. She followed that path to a point, marrying at 22 and raising six children. She hobnobbed with a literate crowd: Thackeray, Lewis Carroll, Tennyson. During a period when her husband was travelling and Margaret missed him terribly, her son-in-law gave her a camera and darkroom kit one Christmas. It was, at age 48, a turning point and entre into her career as a photographer. ( )