How Does Julia Margaret Cameron's Influenced Photography

When people discuss older photographers, they do not often mention women. The reasons are kind of obvious, it is not as if they did not have an artistic eye, they just were not allowed into as many places as men. In the early days cameras were also seen mostly as professional objects not hobbies and as women rarely had careers, they never had the need to purchase them. Julia Margret Cameron received her first camera as a gift from a friend and soon began taking portraits of the celebrities of her time. She also created pictures that depicted scenes from the bible and other works of literature. While her name is not incredibly famous, her style of portrait taking has influenced artists for generations since.

Cameron’s father worked for the East

After receiving her education, she traveled around Africa and India where she made many friends, including astronomer Sir John Herschel, and later met her husband in 1838 ("Julia Margaret Cameron Biography"). They were a very social and influential couple often involved in the politics and in the society of Calcutta until their departure in 1848 ("Julia Margaret Cameron Biography"). Cameron did not receive her first camera until she was 48, when all of her children were gone away from the house, and even then she still had to teach herself how to use it. In the December of 1863, Cameron’s daughter and son-in-law gave her her first camera and she became determined to figure not just how to use it, but how to make art with it ("Heilbrunn Timeline of

She often left her photos with smudges, printed cracked negatives, and scratched away emulsion to create a signature look for her photographs ("Julia Margaret Cameron Biography"). She never commissioned photographs but she did sell her photo in exhibits to help support her costs and she won several awards and mentions for her photographs ("Julia Margaret Cameron Biography"). She made albumen-silver photos from wet collodion glass plates but in 1866 she switched when she purchased a new camera that could hold large glass-plates which enabled her to create large detailed head shots ("Julia Margaret Cameron: Working Methods"). She had a sliding box camera and jasmine lens, she had to wait three to seven minutes for exposure time ("Julia Margaret Cameron: Working