Talk:Julia Margaret Cameron

message: I noticed some discrepancy from source to source on the marriave and "move to england" dates.  Without spending *too* much time on this, I updated the page with what looked like the most credible of the sources I was looking at.
Alchemist0405
I've seen some original prints by Julia Margaret Cameron. They are far from perfect : dust and hair on the plate, I think this is objective not POV.
Ericd 00:13, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: You'd still have to source it, e.g. "according to X, Cameron's prints were QUOTE far from perfect, with dust and hair on the plate UNQUOTE". Otherwise we only have your word for it, and we can't cite User:Ericd as a source, firstly because you could be anyone, and secondly because it would be original research. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 11:02, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
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message: This paragraph keeps appearing from time to time. If someone could actually find the source for this it can be included:
"Unfortunately Julia produced her own prints and was unkempt in apperance. Producing her own prints stained her fingers making them look dirty. With a least one vistor had the fear of god put in them when Julia seeing a new subject over- enthusiastically approached them. Julia must have appeared as a beggar from her looks than the "Lady of the House"."
-AKeen 18:38, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
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message: Would it be informative to add mention of David Rocklin's novel "The Luminist" which is based on Cameron's time in Ceylon?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.49.91.204 (talk) 17:44, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Luminist 

message: Hello. I'm curious to know what book if any can be used as a source for Cameron's allegorical work. Her (at least) four amazing pictures of Alice Liddell are evidently in this group. (Please drop a note on my talk page if there is ever a reply to this note.) -SusanLesch (talk) 04:49, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source for allegorical photos 

message: The section entitled Later Life several times refers to Cameron as being in India, statements apparently based on the belief that Ceylon was part of India.  It was not, is not, never has been.  The government of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) was always quite separate from India's.  I have therefore changed the text in this section to remove mention of India, replacing it with Ceylon.  Do I have to cite sources for this fact?  I have referred to the subjects of her pictures as Ceylonese in order to avoid assuming that they were Sinhalese or Tamil (they were likely the former, but I have no way of proving or sourcing that statement). Penelope Coleman (talk) 21:01, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems reasonable. Thanks for the useful edit! Naturenet | Talk 06:21, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
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replies: text: Revised url substituted --Michael Goodyear ✐  ✉  03:16, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
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replies: text: Revised url substituted --Michael Goodyear ✐  ✉  03:26, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
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message: So I just became a wikipedia editor a few days ago as part of an Art + Feminism event and didn't realize that it wasn't cool to edit entries that I had a personal interest in. Ie. I wrote a biography of Julia Margaret Cameron in 2003 so a few days ago I went in and made some updates, including (among other changes) adding some more recent exhibits of her work, taking out references to her being an "unattractive" woman, and adding my own published biography to the reference section. So I guess I'm just flagging this for someone else to check my work because I didn't mean to run afoul of the rules. If I did, please instruct, revert, or whatever. Thanks/apologies!Vcolsen (talk) 21:15, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Victoria, I am sure you are a welcome addition here. In fact content expertise is a good thing, as long as one does not shamelessly self-promote one's own work! However I have been citing your work around here for some time. --Michael Goodyear ✐  ✉  01:50, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I put the reference to your work in a more standard format. Thanks for reminding me of your work. However you did delete a lot of material, and there may be some discussion about that. --Michael Goodyear ✐  ✉  02:04, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  Looking through the deletions I've reverted a couple of them (albeit with some rewriting) as I think they matter. Firstly, I disagree with changing "out of focus" to "soft focus" as they are not the same thing, and ISTM that it is precisely because Cameron (and many Pictorialists) used out of focus technique as a proxy for soft focus that they were derided as incompetent. (By implication that means the other bits that talk of "soft focus" really need clarifying as it is significant to understanding how she was received.) Secondly I restored the Gernsheim stuff (except the bit crediting him with single-handely popularising her, as I think that was just his vanity, her work had already been published by Stieglitz in Camera Work in 1913 for instance). But he did make the crucial observation that being a great photographer is not the same thing as being an influential photographer, as their contemporaries may either not appreciate their work or simply not have heard of them (he puts Hill & Adamson in the same category BTW). I amended the Cunningham quote to reinforce this, since it shows that even a great fan of Cameron only became aware of her in retrospect - Cameron is popular now because her close-cropped style became fashionable from around the mid-20th century, but her influence skipped a few of generations of photographers in between, basically she was a 100 years ahead of her time!  Samatarou (talk) 00:45, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
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