Product Details
Paperback
144 pages
J Paul Getty Museum Pubns
Published 1996
Midwest Book Review
This latest addition to Getty's 'In Focus' series presents the photographic works of a British woman who produced works in the late 1800s. A chronological arrangement allows viewers to trace the progression of her achievements, with black and white portrait photos accompanied by a facing page of detail on both Cameron's approach and her subject's history. An excellent catalog complimenting Museum holdings.
Book Description
Known as the "greatest pictorialist of her day," Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) came to photography late in life, bringing years of literary and artistic experience to what was still a relatively new medium. She believed the camera was a tool of expression and revolved to reconcile traditional art content with modern forms of expression. The first volume in the In Focus series to examine the work of a nineteenth-century photographer, this beautiful volume examines Cameron's passion for the "divine art" and her "deeply seated love of the beautiful" that are clearly revealed by her compelling pictures. The J. Paul Getty Museum's collection of Cameron photographs consists of 298 prints. Approximately fifty of them are presented here. The plates are accompanied by commentaries written by Julian Cox, assistant curator of photographs. Along with Judy Dater, David Featherstone, Joanne Lukitsch, Weston Naef, Pamela Roberts, and Robert Woof, he participated in a colloquium on Cameron, an edited transcript of which is included here along with a chronology of Cameron's life. |
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