Photo History Class: Julia Margret Cameron

Julia Margret Cameron was born on June 11, 1815 in India. Cameron was the "ugly-duckling" among her two sisters. Her father was an officer oftheEast India Company and her mother was a wealthy French aristocrat. Cameron was a very well-known English protrait photographer, yet her career as a photographer only lasted eleven years. She started taking picutres in 1864 and ended in 1875. She was fourty-eight years old when she started taking pictures because her daughter gave her a camera as a present. Julia married a man twenty years older than her. She was a member of two photographic societies, one in England and one in Scotland. Cameron used a soft-focus inher portraits. Cameron had eveyone ofher photographs copyrighted. Cameron took fewer photographs when her family moved back to India and she died in 1879.