Julia Margaret Cameron

Julia Margaret Cameron ( 1815 – 1879 )

There is some controversy with this english photographer about her peculiar style. While some  say that her style was wanted others say that she had technical shortcomings, but the fact is that thanks these peculiarities wanted or not, his works have a very unique blur  which gives them a poetic look.

She is considered one of the very first pictorialist photographers in the late nineteenth century. Her work was a great inspiration for the pre-Raphaelites painters.

She used inappropriate lens for the plates that she chose, because of that we often find spots and scratches on his works.

It is thought that she learned  of Gustave Rejlander and Lewis Carroll her technique at first.

My first success: Julie

I Wait

A study of the Cenci

Sadness

Beatrice

The echo

Virgina Wolf

Julia Jackson

Black Women

Madona

Sir John Herschel

Willian Henry Fox Talbot

Willian Henry Fox Talbot ( 1800 – 1877 )

English researcher,in parallel to Niépce and Daguerre, and with a huge scientific training, Henry Foz Talbot invented another way of taking pictures: The Calotype.

With this method he could obtained many copies of each negative. The images were less sharp and they lacked of the daguerreotype gray scales, but the calotype was cheaper, easier to use and it required a shorter time of exposure (only 30 seconds).

He published the first illustrated book of photos "The pencil of natura, 1844".

"The Ladder"

 

 

"The Haystack"

"The Broom"

"Ships at low tide"