VERY RARE

First Edition
Hardcover
collectable
Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) is "one of the acknowledged great pioneers of early photography. noted not only as one of the few female photographers of the Victorian age, but also as a bold innovator and entrepreneur who tirelessly campaigned to raise the new science of photography to a higher realm. "My aspirations are to ennoble Photography and to secure for it the character and uses of High Art," she declared. Cameron is now regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of photography. She was one of the earliest photographers to consciously reject meticulous detail in favor of a luminous, dreamlike soft focus, evoking feelings rather than showing facts. Cameron also rejected the confines of conventional darkroom work and gloried in the chance nature of photo chemistry..In the course of just 16 years, with limited technical resources, this remarkable artist created more than 1,200 images." (Getty Museum).