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The Jeu de Paume pays tribute to Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879), pioneer of photographic portraiture, through a first retrospective devoted to her in France in 40 years.
“Julia Margaret Cameron. Capturing Beauty” reveals around a hun- dred photographs, from his first experiments to historical, literary or figurative allegorical compositions, including an impressive gal- lery of portraits of his contemporaries.
Born in India, in Calcutta, to a French aristocrat mother and an English civil servant father in the Bengal administration, Julia Mar- garet Pattle married Charles Hay Cameron, a lawyer 20 years her senior with whom she had six children. When her husband retired in 1848, they left their coffee plantations to settle in England.
In this very culturally rich Victorian era, thanks to one of her sis- ters, she met many painters and writers.
Following her family’s settlement on the Isle of Wight, she became a neighbor and friend of the poet Alfred Tennyson.
For her 48th birthday, her eldest daughter gave her a camera, and this is how she passionately launched her career as a photographer.
Julia Margaret Cameron
A Group of Kalutara Peasants [Un groupe de paysans de Kalutara], 1878
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