portraiture

Sadness, 1864

Inspiration from the Musee D'Orsay today - I got to see an incredible collection of Julia Margaret Cameron's photographs as a part of their Pre-Raphaelite painting/photography exhibit.  She captured portraits, especially of women, like no one had before her and has surely inspired many contemporary female photographers.  She was given a camera as a gift by her daughter at the age of 48, thus beginning her 11-year career as an artist on the Isle of Wight until moving to Sri Lanka where she got sick and died suddenly in 1879.

Ophelia Study No. 2, 1867

Beatrice, 1866