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From the outset, she used the “soft focus” technique to blur the features of her models and affirmed her predilection for human figures.
Her very innovative and pioneering style was strongly criticized in her time. She gracefully integrates this poetic sensitivity of imperfection and the full and willing acceptance of the accident in contrast to the search for perfection advo- cated by her contemporaries. Her magnificent works are imbued with great tenderness for her family but also for her loved ones and her servants.
She likes to photograph women and one of her favorite models, her niece Julia Jackson, is the mother of Virginia Woolf who said of her that she had an “indo- mitable vitality”.
Julia Margaret Cameron also immortalizes artists like George Frederic Watts and scientists like Charles Darwin with great sensitivity. For her, photography is like “the embodiment of a prayer”.
Julia Margaret Cameron Mary Hillier, 1873 Tirage albuminé