Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron: Portraits to Dream In Hardcover Catalogue
Published to coincide with the National Portrait Gallery exhibition Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron: Portraits to Dream In. This hardcover catalogue draws parallels between two of the most significant practitioners in the history of photography, presenting fresh research, rare vintage prints and previously unseen archival works.
“I feel that photographs can either document or record reality or they can offer images as an alternative to everyday life: places for the viewer to dream in.” Francesca Woodman, 1980.
Photographers Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron are two of the most influential women in the history of photography. They lived a century apart – Cameron working in the UK and Sri Lanka from the 1860s, and Woodman in America and Italy from the 1970s. Both women explored portraiture beyond its ability to record appearance – using their own creativity and imagination to suggest notions of beauty, symbolism, transformation and storytelling. Showcasing more than 160 rare vintage prints, Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron: Portraits to Dream In spans the career of both artists – and suggests new ways to look at their work, and the way photographic portraiture was created in the 19th and 20th centuries.
With essays by Katarina Jerinic and Helen Ennis
By Magdalene Keaney
Regular price£35.00