Project Gutenberg on Nostr: British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron died #OTD in 1879. She is considered one ...

British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron died #OTD in 1879.

She is considered one of the most important portraitists of the 19th century. She is known for her soft-focus close-ups of famous Victorian men and women, for illustrative images depicting characters from mythology, Christianity, and literature, and for sensitive portraits of men, women and children. via npub1kvnpp3m60derhwpqwc09zhk3ehk48tr6agc6dk9z2vggu9sga28qpxhm73 (npub1kvn…hm73)

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