Welcome to a Collection of Photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron

Students and admirers of the history of photography would be amiss as to not know Julia Margaret Cameron. Although her career spanned only 11 years, Cameron became one of Victorian Britain’s most famous photographers. She is best known for her moving and intimate portraits of prominent English figures in the arts and sciences. She began taking portraits of these figures when she emigrated from India and settled in Britain’s hub for the cultural elite, the Isle of Wight. Some of her most notable portraits were of poet Alfred Lord Tennyson, actress Ellen Terry, poet Robert Browning, and others. In 1874, Alfred Lord Tennyson commissioned Cameron to create photographic depictions for his collection of narrative poems called the Idylls of the King (based on Arthurian legends.) She had many of her former models sit for these depictions. This collection includes both her notable celebrity portraits as well as selections from her mythic photographic illustrations.

Images and information for this collection were gathered from the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and belong in the public domain.

This project was created by Catherine Grace Poole for the INFO 864 Museum Information Management midterm assignment.