Great Black And White Part 2

Julia Margret Cameron was born in Calcutta in 1815. Julia was the fourth of seven sisters and received much of her education in France and England before recruiting to Calcutta. In 1836 she traveled to Cape Town where she met Sir John Herschel the scientist and astronomer, he supported her work. He was probably the first to introduce her to photographic process and is the subject of some of her best known portraits.
                  In 1837 she met Charles Hay Cameron , whom she married in Calcutta in 1838. He was an important figure in law reform and education in India, and twenty years her senior . For the next ten years the Camerons lived in India and were highly regarded and active in colonial politics and society. Julia was kept busy as a hostess,manger of the household and as a mother.


               In 1863, when Julia was 48 years old , her daughter gave her a camera as a present , thereby starting her career as a photographer . Her motivation was to arrest all beauty that came before her. This image was one of her first success .She created this image for her close friend. The painter George Fredrick Watts,she titled this photograph sadness this image was actually a study of the Shakespearean actress, Ellen Terry.

 In 1863 she found her First success which was photography  and from that point forward she worked tirelessly photographing and composing subjects,producing prints, and promoting and distributing her works as widely as possible.

  Julia's photographic career was short, spanning eleven years of her life from 1864-1875. Although her style was not widely appreciated in her own day , her work had an impact on modern photographers, especially her closely cropped portraits .

                

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