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Malcolm Daniel: The photography of Julia Margaret Cameron

In Cameron’s Mountain Nymph, Sweet Liberty, Miss Keene, an arresting model about whom we know nothing but her last name, stares directly at the camera (and, by extension, at the viewer), her hair loose and her eyes open wide. Filling the frame, she seems to step out of the picture.

January 18, 2026 · Leave a comment

Julia Margaret Cameron: Photograph of Julia Jackson (1867)

This poetic image depicts the woman who was the model for the beautiful Mrs. Ramsay in “To the Lighthouse”, Virginia Woolf’s great novel of 1927.

August 24, 2025 · 7 Comments

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