n 1868 a reviewer for (the forerunner to this magazine) described a set of exhibition prints made by Julia Margaret Cameron as ‘altogether repulsive’. It seems laughable now, knowing what we do about Cameron’s influence on the medium, but back then her ‘wilfully imperfect photography’ caused some critics to get seriously fired up. In her defence, photography was very much in its infancy when she was gifted a camera, and she never once claimed to be a master technician. Now, of course, every smudged fingerprint, unsightly
The dream team
Mar 30, 2024
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