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Julia Margaret Cameron

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The Resume

    (June 11, 1815-January 26, 1879)
    Born in Calcutta, India
    Birth name is Julia Margaret Pattle
    Developed close cropped and soft focus photography
    Renowned for her photographic portraits and allegorical tableaux

Why she might be annoying:

    Her childhood nickname was 'Talent.'
    She and her arty sisters were known as the 'Pattledom.'
    She did not take up photography until she was 48.
    Her innovative soft focus effect was initially a technical error.
    She became snappish with her photographic subjects if they grew restless.
    She virtually abandoned photography after moving to Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in 1875.

Why she might not be annoying:

    Growing up, she was regarded as plain by her good looking family.
    She took up photography as a way to cope with her husband's frequent overseas absences.
    She was a mostly self taught photographer.
    She turned her chicken shed into a studio and her coal house into a darkroom.
    She thought photography could be artistic as well as documentary in nature.
    The Annie Leibovitz of her day, her famous subjects included Charles Darwin, Ellen Terry and Lord Alfred Tennyson.
    She was the great aunt of Virginia Woolf.

Credit: Georgina


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Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 3 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 4 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 7 Votes: 71.43% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 17 Votes: 5.88% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 14 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 7 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 17 Votes: 52.94% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 14 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 15 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 21 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 35 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 17 Votes: 35.29% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 35 Votes: 51.43% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 103 Votes: 44.66% Annoying