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Explore images and themes in the exhibition Arresting Beauty: Julia Margaret Cameron with Associate Curator of Photography, Allison Pappas.
Cameron (1815–1879) was born in Calcutta to a French mother and an English father; in 1848, with her husband and children, she moved to England, where her sisters introduced her to the elite cultural circles in which they traveled. Residing on the Isle of Wight, where she was close neighbors with the poet Alfred Tennyson, Cameron acquired her first camera at age 48. In only eleven years she would create thousands of exposures and leave an enduring image of the Victorian era as an age of intellectual and spiritual ambition.
This lecture takes place in Gilder Lehrman Hall on the Ground Floor. Doors to the Hall will open 30 minutes before the program begins. While registration is encouraged, seating is available on a first come, first served basis. Julia Margaret Cameron: Arresting Beauty will be open to visitors before the lecture starting at 5 pm and after the lecture until 8 pm.
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Julia Margaret Cameron, Call, I Follow, I Follow, Let Me Die!, 1867, carbon print ©The Royal Photographic Society Collection at the V&A, acquired with the generous assistance of the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Art Fund. Museum no. RPS.735-2017.