num_pages: 128
description: Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-79) was almost fifty when she took up photography seriously, yet she produced some of the most innovative and visually striking portraits of the time. Her novel use of lighting and focus transformed portraiture and helped secure the acceptance of photography as an expressive art. Other artists in this series Eugene Atget, Mathew Brady, Wynn Bullock, Joan Fontcuberta, David Goldblatt, Nan Goldin, Graciela Iturbide, Andre Kertesz, Dorothea Lange, Mary Ellen Mark, Joel Meyerowitz, Boris Mikhailov, Lisette Model, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Eadweard Muybridge, Eugene Richards, W. Eugene Smith, Shomei Tomatsu, Joel-Peter Witkin
language: English
title: Julia Margaret Cameron
titlecomplete: Julia Margaret Cameron (55)
genres: Art, Nonfiction, Photography
ratings_count: 50
publisher: Phaidon Press