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Dec 5, 2023Liked by Anne Boyd Rioux

Iā€™m inspired to read the book....ordering it from my library

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Nov 20, 2023Liked by Anne Boyd Rioux

Thank you for introducing us to this incredible artist. Her work is moving and exquisite. I know on a very low level what it is like to see one's photographs "appear" in the chemicals. What a marvel that is.

I love it that you love so much about her work and life.

I love it that you are such a fine photographer yourself (but somehow seem not to allow that).

I love it that each of us has an opportunity to follow a bliss (no matter what age). Confidence and satisfaction follow. We can reach heights unimaginable by taking first steps.

Go; do likewise.

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I love this and sheepishly hadn't known about her connection to Woolf--such a beautiful thing to see a woman arrive at an art moderately later in life, and then go on to be so admired for her work and mastery. And that supportive marriages in art can exist. ;) Also--I LOVE Tove Jansson and cannot wait to read what you thought!

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Nov 16, 2023Liked by Anne Boyd Rioux

Cameron sounds like she was a fascinating woman. I love that she didn't start photography until she was 48. How inspiring!

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Of the things Anne loves about Cameron I'd add one of mine: that she was a professional photographer from the start (when there hardly was such a thing yet), not an "amateur," as she was called for a long time. When I published a biography of Cameron that was still a dominant view, mostly because of her gender and class.

I also admire Cameron's efforts at illustrating literature with photographs, which didn't really take off in publishing. See her images for Tennyson's Idylls of the King, which are genuinely poetic in some way but were less well received.

I haven't seen this Jeu de Paume exhibit yet but am looking forward to it!

Links:

JMC's Idylls of the King: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/269582

From Life, my biography of Cameron: https://www.victoriaolsen.com/

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Nov 16, 2023Liked by Anne Boyd Rioux

Thank you so much for going there for US. The photographs are quite moving. And I love hearing about Cameronā€™s belief in her own vision.

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Love Julia Margaret Cameron! That photograph of Florence could be Alice Liddell, couldn't it? Her work is so similar to Lewis Carroll's (without the slightly creepy factor).

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