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| Julia Margaret Cameron Hattie Campbell albumen print on gold-edged cabinet card, trimmed 1868 National Portrait Gallery (U.K.) |
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| Julia Margaret Cameron Sir Henry Taylor 1865 albumen print on gold-edged cabinet card, trimmed National Portrait Gallery (U.K.) |
From Life is written or printed beneath many of Julia Margaret Cameron's photographic prints at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Her handwritten caption-credits mimicked etchings or engravings where attributions were traditionally written along the bottom edge of the plate, with the name of the inventor of the original image on the left, and the name of the working engraver on the right. Mrs. Cameron seems to have conceived her photographic enterprise like a printmaking process – where the original artist (credited at bottom left) was Life. Each photograph was one authentic, reproduced portion of what Life created and offered to the vigilant camera technician, whose task it was to preserve this creation exactly as it occurred in the whizzing moment.
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| Julia Margaret Cameron Daisy Taylor 1872 albumen print National Portrait Gallery (U.K.) |
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| Julia Margaret Cameron Guardian Angel (Hattie Campbell) 1868 albumen print on gold-edged cabinet card National Portrait Gallery (U.K.) |
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| Julia Margaret Cameron Thomas Hughes (author of Tom Brown's Schooldays) ca. 1865 albumen print National Portrait Gallery (U.K.) |
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| Julia Margaret Cameron Unknown woman ca. 1868-72 albumen print on gold-edged cabinet card National Portrait Gallery (U.K.) |
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| Julia Margaret Cameron John Jackson (Virginia Woolf's maternal grandfather) ca. 1870 albumen print National Portrait Gallery (U.K.) |
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| Julia Margaret Cameron Marie Spartali Stillman 1868 albumen print on gold-edged cabinet card National Portrait Gallery (U.K.) |
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| Julia Margaret Cameron Sir Coutts Lindsay ca. 1865 albumen print National Portrait Gallery (U.K.) |
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| Julia Margaret Cameron Henry George Liddell ca. 1870 albumen print National Portrait Gallery (U.K.) |
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| Julia Margaret Cameron Eleanor Maud Tennyson ca. 1866-70 albumen print on gold-edged cabinet card National Portrait Gallery (U.K.) |
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| Julia Margaret Cameron The little Novice with the Queen Guinevere in the Holy House at Almesbury 1874 albumnen print National Portrait Gallery (U.K.) |
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| Julia Margaret Cameron Vivien and Merlin 1874 albumen print National Portrait Gallery (U.K.) |
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| Julia Margaret Cameron Julia Prinsep Jackson Duckworth Stephen (mother of Virginia Woolf) 1872 albumen print National Portrait Gallery (U.K.) |