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Julia Margaret Cameron's 'Fancy Subjects' - Photographic Allegories of Victorian Identity and Empire (Hardcover)
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Julia Margaret Cameron's 'Fancy Subjects' - Photographic Allegories of Victorian Identity and Empire (Hardcover)
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Julia Margaret Cameron's 'fancy subjects' is the first study of
Cameron's allegorical photographs and the first to examine the
intellectual connections of this imagery to British culture and
politics of the 1860s and 1870s. In these photographs, Cameron
depicted passages from classical mythology, the Old and New
Testament, and historical and contemporary literature. She costumed
her friends, domestic help, and village children in dramatic poses,
turning them into goddesses and nymphs, biblical kings and medieval
knights; she photographed young women in the style of the Elgin
marbles, making sculpture come alive, and re-imagined scenes
depicted in the poetry of Byron and Tennyson. Cameron chose
allegory as her primary artistic device because it allowed her to
use popular iconography to convey a latent or secondary meaning. In
her photographs, a primary meaning is first conveyed by the title
of the image; then, social and political ideas that the artist
implanted in the image begin to emerge, contributing to and
commenting on the contemporary cultural, religious and political
debates of the time. Cameron used the term 'fancy subjects' to
embed these moral, intellectual and political narratives in her
photographs. This book reconnects her to the prominent minds in her
circle who influenced her thinking, including Benjamin Jowett,
George Grote and Henry Taylor, and demonstrates her awareness and
responsiveness to popular graphic art, including textiles and wall
paper, book illustrations and engravings from period folios,
cartoons from Punch and line drawings from the Illustrated London
News, cabinet photographs and autotype prints. -- .
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