‘She Shall Be Made Immortal’
Julia Margaret Cameron’s Photography and the Construction of Celebrity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23490447 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charlotte Boyce (0000-0001-8854-9126, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Pages | 97-135 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Victorian Celebrity Culture and Tennyson's Circle (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/9781137007940_4 |
| OpenAlex | W2482102095 |
| ISBN | 9781137007940 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
In his pioneering 1948 study of the life and work of Julia Margaret Cameron, Helmut Gernsheim recalls the moment when his interest in Cameron’s photography was first piqued. While waiting for a train at Brockenhurst in the New Forest in the early decades of the twentieth century, the renowned photo-historian sought shelter in the station waiting-room, where he ‘was suddenly struck by familiar faces gazing down from the walls’: To my astonishment I found no fewer than eleven autographed portraits of famous Victorians by Julia Margaret Cameron. I must admit that I was rather puzzled to see these photographs decorating a dingy railway waiting room, of all places, but a moment later I came across the surprising explanation inscribed on one or two of the photographs. This gallery of the great men of our age is presented to this room by Mrs. Cameron in grateful memory of this being the spot where she first met one of her sons after a long absence of four years in Ceylon. 11th November 1871.1 Cameron’s improvised ‘gallery of great men’ recalls another visual anthology of eminent Victorians put together by a member of the Freshwater circle: painter G. F. Watts’s Hall of Fame (discussed in Chapter 2).
Art · Art history · Cartography · Geography · Inscribed figure · Painting · Performance art · Photography · Portrait · Visual arts · African history and culture studies · Australian History and Society · History · Photography and Visual Culture
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
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| Citation span | 2016 - 2016 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |