Arresting Beauty: Julia Margaret Cameron Set of 8 Postcards

This set of eight postcards features key works by the Victorian photographer Julia Margaret Cameron.

Julia Margaret Cameron was photography's first widely recognized artist at first as a leading portraitist of famous authors, artists and scientists such as Tennyson, Thomas Carlyle, G.F. Watt, and Charles Darwin. Her absorption with fine art, notably Renaissance painting, led her to create staged tableaux in a mode that has been perpetually rediscovered by photographers down to the present. Most distinct of all was Cameron's wholly personal handling of her medium. Heedless of contemporary conventions of technique, alert to the happy effects of accident, and indifferent to critical scorn, she embraced a style of spontaneous intimacy that distanced her from the photographic establishment of her time and class. Motion blur, highly selective focus, and even fingerprints on the glass negatives are among the idiosyncrasies of her singular oeuvre.

This product was created to accompany the exhibition from the Victoria & Albert Museum Arresting Beauty: Julia Margaret Cameron on view at the Morgan Library & Museum from May 30 through September 14, 2025.