Julia Margaret Cameron's 'Fancy Subjects': Photographic Allegories of Victorian Identity and Empire

by Jeff Rosen

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Nominated for the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History 2017.

The Victorians admired Julia Margaret Cameron for her evocative photographic portraits of eminent men like Tennyson, Carlyle and Darwin. However, Cameron also made numerous photographs that she called 'Fancy subjects', depicting scenes from literature, personifications from classical mythology, and Biblical parables from the Old and New Testament. This book is the first...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1526118858

ISBN13:9781526118851

Release Date:August 2017

Publisher:Manchester University Press

Length:336 Pages

Weight:1.45 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.6" x 9.4"

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