Victorian giants
Subtitle: the birth of art photography : Julia Margaret Cameron, Lewis Carroll, Clementina Hawarden, Oscar Rejlander
By: Phillip Prodger; with a forward by HRH the Duchess of Cambridge
Contributors: Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, 1982- writer of foreword; National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain); Millennium Gallery (Sheffield, England)
Publisher: National Portrait Gallery
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9781855147065
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Artistic Photography; Exhibitions
Description: This major new exhibition brings together, for the first time, the works of four of the most celebrated figures in art photography, Lewis Carroll (1832-98), Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-79), Oscar Rejlander (1813-75) and Clementina Hawarden (1822-65). These four artists would come to embody the very best in photography of the Victorian era. Their experimental approach to picture-making and radical attitudes towards photography have informed artistic practice ever since. Featuring striking portaits of sitters such as Charles Darwin, Alice Liddell, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Thomas Carlyle, George Frederick Watts, Ellen Terry and Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Exhibition: National Portrait Gallery, London, UK (01.03.-20.05.2018).
Notes: Catalog for an exhibtion held at the National Portrait Gallery, London, March 1- May 20, 2018; the Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, June 30 - September 23, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-215) and index.