From life : Julia Margaret Cameron & Victorian photography / Victoria Olsen.

"Celebrated pioneer photographer, Julia Margaret Cameron was also at the center of an elite circle of English artists and writers who shaped a generation of Victorian culture. Working in the 1860s, when photography was still young, Cameron defied the conventions of the scientific photographic e...

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Main Author: Olsen, Victoria
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
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