For my Final project I want to make a sequence of images that looked similar to my favorite photographer from the time period, Julia Margret Cameron. Julia Margret Cameron fought the odds and developed a never before seen style that was unique in and of in self. Although many of her peers and those considered “masters” told her that she wasn’t good and that her work disrespected photography as an art. Julia Magret Cameron overcame extreme odds and showed the world what true expression really is. My final project is a collection of black and white Polaroid images photographed using Polaroid 600 film. The film was developed under direct UV light to diminish the contrast and give the images a muted feeling.
Julia Margret Cameron was born in 1815 …show more content…
Her husband was away tending to the family coffee business and all of her male children were all grown or away studying. In addition, her only daughter had recently married and moved away. Photography soon became Cameron’s only way of connecting to the writer’s, poets, scientist and celebrities of her time. She started out with no prior experience or education the arts. She taught herself the difficult steps in making negatives with wet collodion on glass plates. When she first started she saw photography as little more then a hobby, but as her loneliness grew so did her love and passion for photography. Within the fist year and a half she was already showing her work in galleries across the world. She sold 80 prints to the Victoian and Albert Museum and opened up a studio. She even made arrangements with printsellers to help publish and sell her photographs to further fund her …show more content…
In 1865, There was a Photographic Journal that reviewed her submission to the yearly exhibition of the Photographic Society of Scotland, they wrote the following about Cameron’s Photographs: "Mrs. Cameron exhibits her series of out-of-focus portraits of celebrities. We must give this lady credit for daring originality, but at the expense of all other photographic qualities. A true artist would employ all the resources at his disposal, in whatever branch of art he might practise. In these pictures, all that is good in photography has been neglected and the shortcomings of the art are prominently exhibited. We are sorry to have to speak thus severely on the works of a lady, but we feel compelled to do so in the interest of the art." This criticism only fueled her passion. She kept at it and continued to photograph what she wanted and in her own style. Shortly after the Illustrated London News wrote a artical describing her pictorial photographs as "the nearest approach to art, or rather the most bold and successful applications of the principles of fine-art to photography." The Photographic Journal noticed this and replied: "Slovenly manipulation may serve to cover want of precision in intention, but such a lack and such a mode of masking it are unworthy of
Julia Margret Cameron was born in 1815 …show more content…
Her husband was away tending to the family coffee business and all of her male children were all grown or away studying. In addition, her only daughter had recently married and moved away. Photography soon became Cameron’s only way of connecting to the writer’s, poets, scientist and celebrities of her time. She started out with no prior experience or education the arts. She taught herself the difficult steps in making negatives with wet collodion on glass plates. When she first started she saw photography as little more then a hobby, but as her loneliness grew so did her love and passion for photography. Within the fist year and a half she was already showing her work in galleries across the world. She sold 80 prints to the Victoian and Albert Museum and opened up a studio. She even made arrangements with printsellers to help publish and sell her photographs to further fund her …show more content…
In 1865, There was a Photographic Journal that reviewed her submission to the yearly exhibition of the Photographic Society of Scotland, they wrote the following about Cameron’s Photographs: "Mrs. Cameron exhibits her series of out-of-focus portraits of celebrities. We must give this lady credit for daring originality, but at the expense of all other photographic qualities. A true artist would employ all the resources at his disposal, in whatever branch of art he might practise. In these pictures, all that is good in photography has been neglected and the shortcomings of the art are prominently exhibited. We are sorry to have to speak thus severely on the works of a lady, but we feel compelled to do so in the interest of the art." This criticism only fueled her passion. She kept at it and continued to photograph what she wanted and in her own style. Shortly after the Illustrated London News wrote a artical describing her pictorial photographs as "the nearest approach to art, or rather the most bold and successful applications of the principles of fine-art to photography." The Photographic Journal noticed this and replied: "Slovenly manipulation may serve to cover want of precision in intention, but such a lack and such a mode of masking it are unworthy of