Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) was born in Calcutta in 1815, one of seven daughters to a man known as 'the biggest liar in India'. After being educated in Europe, she returned to the Cape of Good Hope where she met Charles Hay Cameron, whom she married in 1838. On Charles' retirement in 1848, they moved to London where Julia became part of Kensington's artistic community, including poet Henry Taylor, painter G. F. Watts, and Poet Laureate Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The gift of a camera from one of her daughters in 1863 sparked an enthusiasm in Julia Margaret Cameron for this new art form. Within a year she had begun to present her friends with albums of her work and was elected a member of the Photographic Society in London. She outraged society by becoming an experimental photographer, though because of her refusal to 'retouch', many considered her an bungling amateur. Then, in 1875, at the peak of her fame as a photographer, her husband wanted to return to his sons in India so that he might be with them for his last years. She gave it all up, and the Camerons departed for Ceylon, their coffins filled with possessions.
The second volume of Tennyson's Idylls of the Kings with her photographs was newly published, and she had concurrent exhibitions of her work in London and Bournemouth.
- ISBN10 0750932309
- ISBN13 9780750932301
- Publish Date 28 February 2004 (first published 6 February 2003)
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 2 October 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher The History Press Ltd
- Imprint Sutton Publishing Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 160
- Language English