In this week’s issue of the magazine, Anthony Lane writes about Julia Margaret Cameron’s portraits, which are currently on view in a new show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Born in 1815 ...

Julia Margaret Cameron’s photographs were smudged ... what could achieve those aims better than a soft focus, dramatic lighting and the subjects’ emotive expressions? Today, looking at ...

London’s V&A is celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of pioneering photographer Julia Margaret ... less well. Cameron had not just a remarkable sense for composition but was hugely ...

Narrator: Julia Margaret Cameron was born in 1815 in Kolkata ... Julia would experiment, creating soft focus, dream-like effects. She would even add scratches to the photo. This made them look ...

A detail from Julia Margaret Cameron's ... Weiss' catalogue essay charts the indignation Cameron's work caused in photographic circles of the time. Her soft-focus approach irritated those who ...

and the shortcomings of the art are prominently exhibited," reported The Photographic Journal in an 1864 article about Julia Margaret Cameron's "out-of-focus portraits" of the leading poets and ...

In any history of photography, and quite independent of gender, Julia Margaret Cameron ... they are invisible; soft-focus features are subdued. Cameron’s favourite muse for this treatment ...

But Julia Margaret Cameron’s photographs of such ... an unorthodox style of soft focus yet precisely directed light, careful positioning yet long exposures that sometimes allowed sitters ...

Today regarded as one of the most important and experimental photographers of the 19th century, the portraitist Julia Margaret ... at using long exposures, soft focus and atmospheric lighting ...

Julia Margaret ... out of focus". Marta Weiss being interviewed in the gallery Weiss said that other photographers would focus their lens until the image looked sharp, but Cameron would focus ...