Julia Margaret Cameron's 'fancy subjects' is the first study of Cameron's allegorical photographs and the first to examine the intellectual connections of this imagery to British culture and politics of the 1860s and 1870s. In these photographs, Cameron depicted passages from cl…
Ignored or derided until now, this book looks at Cameron's allegorical work in relation to the political and artistic zeitgeist of the Victorian period.
Julia Margaret Cameron's 'fancy subjects' is the first study of Cameron's allegorical photographs and the first to examine the intellectual connections of this imagery to British culture and politics of the 1860s and 1870s. Cameron chose allegory as her primary artistic device b…
Ignored or derided until now, this book looks at Cameron's allegorical work in relation to the political and artistic zeitgeist of the Victorian period.