| Description |
243 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm |
| Contents |
Preface / James N. Wood -- Introduction and Acknowledgments / Sylvia Wolf -- Milkmaid Madonnas: An Appreciation of Cameron's Portraits of Women / Phyllis Rose -- Julia Margaret Cameron's Women / Sylvia Wolf -- Legend "From Life": Cameron's Illustrations to Tennyson's "Idylls of the King" / Debra N. Mancoff -- Plates -- "Mrs. Cameron's Photographs, Priced Catalogue": A Note on Her Sales and Process / Sylvia Wolf -- Sitters' Biographies / Stephanie Lipscomb -- App. Cameron's Literary and Mythological Subjects / Debra N. Mancoff and Sylvia Wolf |
| Summary |
Cameron is recognized as a pioneer of photography and one of the great portrait photographers of all time. The bulk of her work consists of portraits of women. This book is the first to concentrate on this central aspect of Cameron's work, providing new information and insights about one of photography's most visionary practitioners |
| Notes |
"Published in conjunction with the exhibition, Julia Margaret Cameron's Women... exhibition dates, The Art Institute of Chicago, 19 September 1998-10 January 1999; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 27 January-4 May 1999; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 27 August-30 November 1999"--T.p. verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Cameron, Julia Margaret, 1815-1879 -- Exhibitions.
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Cameron, Julia Margaret, 1815-1879 -- Exhibitions.
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Photographers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Photography of women -- Exhibitions.
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Photography, Artistic.
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Portrait photography.
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| Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs.
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| Author |
Cameron, Julia Margaret, 1815-1879.
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Lipscomb, Stephanie.
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Mancoff, Debra N., 1950-
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Rose, Phyllis, 1942-
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Art Institute of Chicago.
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Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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| LC no. |
98034245 |
| ISBN |
0300077815 (hardcover) |
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0865591695 (paperback) |
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