University Libraries Lance and Elena Calvert Calvert Undergraduate Research Awards Award for Undergraduate Research 2018 Julia Margaret Cameron's Photographs as Paintings Winnie Wu
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[email protected]. JULIA MARGARET CAMERON’S PHOTOGRAPHS AS PAINTINGS Winnie Wu ART 475: History of Photography November 30th, 2017 !1 Julia Margaret Cameron did not have a camera until she was forty-eight, given to her by her daughter and son-in-law.1 She did not have mechanical expertise, scientific knowledge, or practical experience in the arts. She was a wife of a philosopher and a mother of seven children.2 Through her husband’s society however, she was in contact with some of the preeminent Victorian thinkers and artists.