Juliet Margaret Cameron was a Pioneer Victorian photographer during the nineteenth century. She took up photography later in life at the age forty-eight when her daughter presented her with a camera. This simple gift sparked enthusiasm in Cameron and led her to become one of the most colorful personalities in photography. Cameron was born in Calcutta in 1815 to a well to do British Family. After being educated in Europe, she returned to the Cape of Good Hope in 1836. While she was there she met Charles Hay Cameron, whom she married in 1838. On Charles' retirement in 1848, they...
or amateur in her approach. The financial condition of her family at the time when she began to work at her photography was so distressing that it must have taken an incredible act of will to launch herself into a field where few women had a place. Her astonishing energy and boldness carried her through all the difficulties she faced. Even if she didn't make all the money she had hoped for, she managed to transform photography using psychological penetration ?óÔé¼ÔÇ£ "conveying the inner spirit", in her terms, and is recognized today as being decades ahead of her time.