As part of the RPS Historical Group's look at historical collections of photography, photographic archives, and those working historical and alternative processes Aneela de Soysa will discuss Julia Margaret Cameron's little known photographs made in Ceylon.
Julia Margaret Cameron was one of the most innovative photographers of the nineteenth century. With a soft focus, her photographs looked more like pre-Raphaelite paintings than the studio portraits of the day. She is famous for her photographs of famous men of her day as well as her allegorical and historical photographs using her family, friends and domestic help as sitters.
In 1875, Cameron left England for Ceylon, now known as Sri Lanka, where she died three years later. Remaining photographs from her 'Ceylon period' are few, numbering less than 30 and little known
Aneela de Soysa who is working on a thesis on Cameron’s Ceylon photographs shares traces of Cameron’s life and times in Ceylon derived through archival sources and visits to the locations where the photographs were taken, bringing new insights into Julia Margaret Cameron's last photographs.
Негізгі бет Julia Margaret Cameron in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) 1875-1879
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