Julia Margaret Cameron

Cameron was born in 1815 in Calcutta, India. After she recieved her very first camera from her daughter and son-in-law, she began her working career in photography at the age of 48. She produced most of her work from her home at Freshwater on the Isle of Wight. She used her family, domestic servants, and local residents as her models for her photography. She photographed the intellectuals and leaders within her circle of family and friends, some included, the painter George Frederick Watts, the astronomer Sir John Heschel, and the poet Laureate Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Cameron stated her photographic mission thus: "My aspirations are to ennoble Photography and to secure for it the character and uses of High Art by combining the real and Ideal and sacrificing nothing of the Truth by all possible evotion to Poetry and beauty." Cameron died in 1879 in Sri Lanka.

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