A story of a Woman

Julia Margaret Cameron was a photographer during the 19^th century, who became famous for her Pre-Raphaelite subject, including poems by Tennison, Shakespeare and others. She began her career at her 45^th birthday party, when her daughter bought her a photographic camera. During a period of male dominated society, Julia M. was one of the first female photographers, imposing her style in the English art scene.  She was ridiculed by her fellow artists who would complain about the blur in some of her works, which was caused from intentional long exposure or the camera being out of focus. In this same period activists such as Emmeline Panknurst were trying to show that British women, were more than a domestic servant. The first organized movement in England took place in 1880, at Langham Place Circle.  After 13 years, Madame Cameron became a recognised photographer for her pieces of works, emphasizing even more the equality between male and female, obtaining rights that after, in the late centuries were recognized and established by Margaret Thatcher, who became the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the 1979. 

Cindy Sherman, an American photographer produced in the 1981 Center Folds, a work referred to the stereotype of women in movies, making the models look the victims on the eyes of the public male, invoking the violent abuse. Showing another concept of feminism, exposing the fragility of a female being.

National Portrait Gallery, London

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Uel photography Lecture 2011