biography
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Cameron, Julia Margaret
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née Pattle
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| female
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| lived:
| (1815–79)
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| biography:
| British photographer, born in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), E India. In 1838 she married an Indian jurist, Charles Hay Cameron (1795–1880), and moved to England in 1848. At the age of 48 she was given a camera, and went on to become an outstanding amateur photographer in the 1860s. Her close-up portraits of such Victorian celebrities as Tennyson, Darwin, Carlyle, and Newman received permanent acclaim. |
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