Julia Margaret Cameron

Name: Julia Margaret Cameron
Brand: Hachette Australia
SKU: 9780714846187
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By Joanne Lukitsh

Series: 55s

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Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–79) began her photographic career around the age of fifty, self-taught yet highly innovative. This monograph explores her pioneering work in portraiture, highlighting her distinctive use of lighting and soft focus to create evocative, expressive images. Featuring 55 chronologically arranged photographs, it offers insight into one of photography's most influential women.
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Ideal for readers interested in photography, art history, and women pioneers in the arts.

An introductory monograph on this much-loved Victorian photographer.

Description

Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–79) was almost fifty—and practically self-taught—when she took up photography seriously. Despite this, she produced some of the most innovative and visually striking portraits of her time. Her novel use of lighting and focus transformed portraiture and helped secure the acceptance of photography as an expressive art.

This is an introductory monograph on one of the most important women photographers of all time, featuring 55 chronologically sequenced pictures.

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Julia Margaret Cameron

By Joanne Lukitsh

Hardback

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780714846187

Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 19 May 2006

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Phaidon Press Ltd

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 210.0mm

Height: 245.0mm

Weight: 660g

Pages: 128

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Arts & Culture Joanne Lukitsh Non-Fiction Series: 55s

About the Author

Joanne Lukitsh is a professor of Art History at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. She has written and lectured extensively on Julia Margaret Cameron, and has also written on American photography, including work on Alfred Stieglitz's early photographs. Professor Lukitsh has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Paul Mellon Centre for the Study of British Art

Julia Margaret Cameron