Julia Margaret Cameron

Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) was a British photographer. She photographed artists and scientists.

Cameron was born June 11, 1815 in Calcutta, India. Her father worked for the British East India Company. Cameron was sent to school in England and Europe. After her education she returned to British India. In 1838 she married Charles Hay Cameron. In 1848 she and her husband and children moved to England. For her 48th birthday she was given a camera. She liked experimenting with the camera and developing photographs. She often made photographs of her friends including the scientist Charles Darwin and the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

In 1875 Cameron moved from England to Ceylon with her husband. She died there on January 26, 1879. 

Her work is in many museums including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art, 

In 2013 the Metropolitan Museum of Art held a solo exhibition of her photographs. In 2016 the Victoria and Albert Museum held a retrospective exhibition of Cameron's work. The exhibtion was held on Cameron's bicentenary (200th birthday).

Gallery

 References 

 Other websites 
 Julia Margaret Cameron Trust
Julia Margaret Cameron at The J. Paul Getty Museum
Julia Margaret Cameron at the National Portrait Gallery

Category:1815 births
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Category:People from Kolkata
Category:Photographers