Julia Margaret Cameron – A Poetry of Photography by Nichole J Fazio
£50, Bodleian Library, hardcover, 256 pages, ISBN: 9781851245840
One of the most famous pioneers of photography, Julia Margaret Cameron is perhaps most well-known for her portraits of eminent Victorians, including John Herschel, Alfred Tennyson, Henry Taylor, George Frederic Watts, Ellen Terry and Julia Stephen. This book looks at how she considered the poetic possibilities of the new medium, working with it in a suggestive, rather than literal capacity. In doing so, she went against the commonly-held norms of the aesthetic for the time – she might arguably have been considered a rebel.
The book draws from over 100 items held in the photographic collections at the Bodleian Library and Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, where the…
