Julia Margaret Cameron, "Call, I Follow, I Follow. Let Me Die!", 1867. Carbon print, printed later RPS.735-2017. Victoria & Albert Museum, London
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Arresting Beauty: Julia Margaret Cameron
30/05/2025 - 14/09/2025
The Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Avenue
NY 10016 New York
www.themorgan.org
Arresting Beauty: Julia Margaret Cameron explores the path-breaking career of photography’s first widely recognized artist. Cameron (1815–1879) was born in Calcutta modern day Kolkata) to a French mother and an English father; in 1848, with her husband and children, she moved to England, where her sisters introduced her to the elite cultural circles in which they traveled. Residing on the Isle of Wight, where she was close neighbors with the poet Alfred Tennyson, Cameron acquired her first camera at age 48. In only eleven years she would create thousands of exposures and leave an enduring image of the Victorian era as an age of intellectual and spiritual ambition.
30/05/2025 - 14/09/2025
The Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Avenue
NY 10016 New York
www.themorgan.org
Arresting Beauty: Julia Margaret Cameron explores the path-breaking career of photography’s first widely recognized artist. Cameron (1815–1879) was born in Calcutta modern day Kolkata) to a French mother and an English father; in 1848, with her husband and children, she moved to England, where her sisters introduced her to the elite cultural circles in which they traveled. Residing on the Isle of Wight, where she was close neighbors with the poet Alfred Tennyson, Cameron acquired her first camera at age 48. In only eleven years she would create thousands of exposures and leave an enduring image of the Victorian era as an age of intellectual and spiritual ambition.