{"product_id":"julia-margaret-cameron-colin-ford-9780892367078","title":"Julia Margaret Cameron: A Critical Biography","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHilton Kramer, former art critic of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, once described the British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) as \"one of the finest portraitists of the nineteenth century--in any medium.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRaised in a well-connected and creative family, Cameron led an unconventional life for a woman of the Victorian age. After devoting herself to an artistic and literary salon at her home on the Isle of Wight and raising eleven children, Cameron took up the fairly new art form of photography in her late forties. Over the next fourteen years, she produced more than a thousand images, including romantic pictures of young women and strikingly original--if often controversial--literary illustrations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer searching portraits of her friends and acquaintances, including such eminent personalities as Alfred Tennyson and Charles Darwin, have been called the world's first close-ups. This biography of Cameron draws on scholarly insights resulting from a thorough documentation of Cameron's surviving prints. It casts new light on the artist's links with the leading cultural figures of her time and on the techniques she used to achieve her distinctive style. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is published to coincide with a traveling exhibition of Cameron's photographs that will be on display at the National Portrait Gallery, London, and the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford, England, in spring 2003; it will open at the Getty Museum in October 2003. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Colin Ford\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0892367075\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780892367078\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e J. Paul Getty Trust Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.46lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 12.00h x 9.98w x 0.91d","brand":"Colin Ford","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49082587742463,"sku":"9780892367078","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/julia-margaret-cameron-colin-ford-9780892367078","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}