"I longed to arrest all the beauty that came before me and at length the longing has been satisfied." Julia Margaret Cameron

Julia Margaret Cameron was born Julia Margaret Pattle in Calcutta, India, to James Pattle, a British official of the East India Company, and Adeline de l'Etang, a daughter of French aristocrats. Cameron was from a family of celebrated beauties, and was considered an ugly duckling among her sisters. For example, each sister had an attribute which she used as a nickname. Her sisters had nicknames like "beauty". Julia's nickname was "talent". This instilled in Julia an obsession with idealized beauty. Julia Margaret Cameron The Mountain Nymph Sweet Liberty 1866

Julia Margaret Cameron Julia Jackson 1864/ , at the age of 48, Cameron received a camera from her daughter Became a member of the Photographic Societies of London & Scotland

Julia Margaret Cameron The Echo 1868 Used her friends and children as subjects

Julia Margaret Cameron My Ewen's Bride (God's Gift to Us) November 18, 1869 Registered as well as procured a copyright for each of her photographs, thus preserving a large body of her work Photography was a new medium and her work is credited with capturing historical figures

Julia Margaret Cameron J.F.W. Herschel 1867 She worked in 2 genres: celebrity portraiture and illustrative portraiture Some of her famous portraits: Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, and Charles Darwin

Mariana "She said I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead" 1875