Sujet
Julia Jackson Duckworth (1846-1895), 1867. Creator: Julia Margaret Cameron (British, 1815-1879).
Légende
Julia Jackson Duckworth (1846-1895), 1867. Julia Jackson, the artist?s niece, namesake, goddaughter, and favorite model, is shown at age 21, a few weeks before her wedding. Cameron?s usual soft focus here imparts a sense of becoming, appropriate to this important transformation in a Victorian woman?s life. The daringly modern frontal close-up suggests reflection and self-questioning more characteristic of peering into a mirror than posing before a camera. These two images are from a series of four works based on the same negative, each posited by scholars to be a reversal of the preceding image. Reversing the images alters the face, suggesting that Cameron valued recording Jackson?s inner life more than capturing her likeness. Cameron advanced the photographic portrait from commerce to art and from physiognomic depiction to evocation of a sitter?s soul.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Notre référence
HRM19F89_110
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
55,3Mo (2,7Mo) / 33,6cm x 41,2cm / 3968 x 4871 (300dpi)