Perhaps the greatest portrait photographer ever, Julia Cameron was a unappreciated pioneer back in Victorian times, as well as being the writer Virginia Woolf's aunt. She took up photography aged 48, in an art world dominated by men where she was looked down upon for her unorthodox style.She took up photography relatively late, aged 48 in 1863, and needed the money.
Her pre-raphaelite work is what she is remembered by art historians for, along with her portraits of notable Victorians like Alfred Tennyson, Charles Darwin and Robert Browning.
Pre-Raphaelite work:
Portraits:
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