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Unravelled, vulnerable, intimate and handmade: the photographs of Julia Margaret Cameron have both inspired, and haunted, Alexander McQueen designer Sarah Burton

From her housemaid to Alfred Tennyson, the indomitable Victorian wrestled everybody into her studio, dressing them up as characters from Shakespeare and the Bible. For years, these tableaux have been out of fashion – but two new shows cast this pioneering photographer in a new light

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280/365 Welcome back everyone! Today I wanted to share this great documentary on a the inspirational Annie Leibovitz. I’ve seen a couple of them, and even posted some a while back, but they always seem to disappear. Watch it while you can and enjoy! In the documentary they go into saying that her exhibition was […]

Inscription: Inscribed in black ink on mount, recto BL to BR beneath image: "From Life Registered Photograph Copy Right Julia Margaret Cameron Fresh Water Isle of Wight Sep 74", "Vivien and Merlin [below inscription]"

Mary Pinnock - 1867 (Photograhed by Julia Margaret Cameron)

Julia Margaret Cameron b. 1815 Calcutta, India, d. 1879 Sri Lanka photographer British After receiving a camera as a gift, Julia Margaret Cameron began her career in photography at the age of forty-eight. She produced the majority of her work from her home at Freshwater on the Isle of Wight. By the coercive force of her eccentric personality, she enlisted everyone around her as models, from family members to domestic servants and local residents. The wife of a retired jurist, Cameron moved…