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Dimbola Museum & Galleries
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Freshwater, England
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Dimbola was the home of celebrated Victorian photographer Julia Margaret Cameron. It is absolutely fascinating and a real insight into a women who was ahead of her time . Regular visitors included Tennyson and Darwin. A charming, authentic museum and gallery
Home of the renowned victorian photographer Julia Margaret Cameron. You might also enjoy the Isle of Wight Festival exhibition and why not take your picture taken next to the famous Jimmy Hendrix statue.
Julia Margaret Cameron (1815 – 1879) was one of the most important early photographers and now recognised worldwide as a pioneer of photography as art. Ahead of her time, she was ambitious and freethinking when most Victorian women were passive and demure. She took on the challenges of handling large cameras and dangerous chemicals at a time when photography was known as ‘The Black Art’. Today she is credited with creating the first photographic close-up portraits and influencing the subsequent Pictorialism movement with her use of diffused focus. Her portraits of ‘famous men and fair women’, reflect her time within the Freshwater Circle, which included Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Lewis Carroll, and the birth of celebrity.
Julia Margaret Cameron (1815 – 1879) was one of the most important early photographers and now recognised worldwide as a pioneer of photography as art. Ahead of her time, she was ambitious and freethinking when most Victorian women were passive and demure. She took on the challenges of handling lar…
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