Julia Margaret Cameron's Women, Great Men and Others.

Afterimage | March 1, 2000| | Copyright

"Women mother?."

--Nancy Chodorow, The Reproduction of Mothering

In the beginning Julia Margaret Cameron's place in the history of photography was secured by her portraits of great men. Her portraits of poets Alfred Lord Tennyson and Henry Taylor lifted her out of the domestic confines of chicken-coop studios and amateur theatricals. Her portraits of artists George Frederick Watts and William Holman Hunt allowed her penchant for soft focus, ethereal lighting and smudgy printing to be read as aesthetic gravitas rather than amateurish error. Her portraits of scientists John ...

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