EXPOSICIÓN JULIA MARGARET CAMERON

Fundación MAPFRE. Julia Margaret Cameron. 

La exposición, organizada por el Victoria and Albert Museum de Londres con la colaboración de Fundación MAPFRE, está formada por más de 100 fotografías que permiten adentrarse en la mirada de la fotógrafa inglesa y que ofrecen una visión completa de su obra.

 Julia Margaret Cameron (Calcuta, 1815 - Ceilán, 1879) fue sin duda uno de los nombres más importantes e innovadores dentro de la fotografía del siglo XIX.

 comisaria de la exposición, Marta Weiss, conservadora jefe de fotografía del Victoria and Albert Museum.

To mark the bicentenary of the birth of Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879), one of the most important and innovative photographers of the 19th century, the V&A will showcase more than 100 of her photographs from the Museum’s collection. The exhibition will offer a retrospective of Cameron’s work and examine her relationship with the V&A’s founding director, Sir Henry Cole, who in 1865 presented her first museum exhibition and the only one during her lifetime.

Cameron is one of the most celebrated women in the history of photography. She began her photographic career when she received her first camera as a gift from her daughter at the age of 48, and quickly and energetically devoted herself to the art of photography. Within two years Cameron had sold and given her photographs to the South Kensington Museum (now the V&A) and in 1868, the Museum granted her the use of two rooms as a portrait studio.