Author: OLSEN, VICTORIA
Title: From life. Julia Margaret Cameron & Victorian photography
Description: London: Aurum Press, 2003 (1st ed.); 8vo (24cm), xvi+320pp., black-white photographs, end papers with genealogical tables, end notes, index, hardback w. dust jacket. Near fine copy w.ex libris pasted down on reverse of first free end paper. ¶ Julia Cameron was an English-French pioneer photographer who started in 1863 with her own camera. She defied the conventions of scientific photography and insisted that photography could be an art form. Her series of portraits are famous and many of them are reproduced in this book, but the biographic story is as important and thoroughly researched and documented.

Keywords: 19th century biography photography women