By Sylvia Wolf, with contributions by Stephanie Lipscomb, Debra N. Mancoff, and Phyllis Rose
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Julia Margaret Cameron is recognized as a pioneer of photography and one of its greatest practioners of portraiture. She photographed many celebrated men of the 19th century, but the bulk of her work consists of mesmerizing images of women that exhibit an intensity of emotion not often publicly revealed in Victorian society. This stunning book is the first to focus on this aspect of Cameron's work, providing new insights into one of photography's visionary artists.
The authors provide a wide-ranging view of Cameron's art. Sylvia Wolf discusses Cameron's female portraits within the context of the photographer's remarkable life and times; Phyllis Rose, noted author of Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages, contributes an essay that blends an awareness of the literary culture of Cameron's era with a personal response to her photographs; Debra N. Mancoff examines some of Cameron's most challenging photographs, the illustrations to Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the King; and Stephanie Lipscomb provides biographies of Cameron's female sitters. The text is complemented by superb full-page, five-color reproductions and duotones, many of them of works never before published.
"Wolf's lengthy essay is a page-turner, and the reproduction of Cameron's moody, powerful photographs is excellent."—The Boston Sunday Globe
The Art Institute of Chicago and Yale University Press
9 3/8 x 12 1/2 in.; 244 pages; 148 illustrations (64 five-color, 84 duotone)
Hardcover $27.50 ISBN 0-300-07781-5
This book is available from Yale University Press.
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