According to the National Portrait Gallery, this new exhibition pairing photographers from different centuries and continents is a “risk”. Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-79) was a self-taught member of ...

Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum outside of New York City—a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention. A new show at ...

The 19th-century photographer made especially penetrating portraits, drawing on sources as varied as Tennyson, the Bible and Goethe for their poses William Meyers ...

Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–79) was already forty-eight when she was given her first camera by her daughter and son-in-law gave in December 1863. She was intrigued by what she had heard of ...

On a gilt-ruled mounted, signed, titled, dated, and annotated 'From Life Registered Photograph Copyright,' 'The Dream,' and '"Methought I saw my late espoused Saint ...

Most of what's on view comes to the Midwest from the Victoria & Albert Museum, where Cameron had a studio back when it was called the South Kensington Museum.

"Just over 100 years separate the creative lives of Julia Margaret Cameron and Francesca Woodman," said Sean O'Hagan in The Observer. The former was English, "a Victorian pioneer of imaginative ...

One of the great takeaways from the small, elegant, and wonder-filled show “Arresting Beauty: Julia Margaret Cameron” is how much fun Cameron must have been. Born in Calcutta to a trader father, she ...

It was an age of profound tensions, expressed in the drama and energy of baroque art. Even metaphysics, in this age of science, was tormented by the paradoxes of dualism: how could the connection ...