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Photo of the Week: Elaine from “Idylls of the King”

Julia Margaret Cameron

 

Julia Margaret Cameron

 

Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) was a British photographer whose soft-focus allegorical images drew on literary and religious sources. In 1874, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, invited her to provide photographic illustrations for his Idylls of the King.