Mike Weaver, "Whisper of the Muse: The Overstone Album and Other Photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron"
Mike Weaver, "Whisper of the Muse: The Overstone Album and Other Photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron"
Publisher: J. Paul Getty | 1986 | ISBN: 0892360887 | English | PDF | 104 pages | 8.8 Mb
Publisher: J. Paul Getty | 1986 | ISBN: 0892360887 | English | PDF | 104 pages | 8.8 Mb
In this lavishly illustrated publication, Mike Weaver discusses the work of Julia Margaret Cameron, an English photographer known for her painterly approach to her subjects. Weaver’s essay analyzes Mrs. Cameron’s approach to photography as evidenced in the Overstone Album, a collection of 109 of her albumen prints. These prints, which were made between January 1864 and July 1865, were divided into three categories—“Portraits,” “Madonna Groups,” and “Fancy Subjects for Pictorial Effect”—with annotations by Mrs. Cameron about the images and where they were made. Weaver provides invaluable insight into Mrs. Cameron’s life and art and identifies her many sources and concerns, both secular and religious.
This book appears on the occasion of an exhibition of Julia Margaret Cameron’s “divine art,” the first exhibition from the Museum’s recently formed collection of photographs and therefore a great moment in the Getty’s short, eventful history.
Foreword
John Walsh
Preface
Weston J. Naef
A Divine Art of Photography
Mike Weaver
Documents
Checklist of Overstone Images
Index of Proper Names & Photograph Titles
Selected Bibliography
John Walsh
Preface
Weston J. Naef
A Divine Art of Photography
Mike Weaver
Documents
Checklist of Overstone Images
Index of Proper Names & Photograph Titles
Selected Bibliography
“The definitive interpretation of [Cameron’s] work.”
—Booklist
“A beautiful volume … the reproductions throughout are of superb quality…. This monograph is an important addition to photographic literature. It is rewarding to know that the major photographic collection at the Getty will be shared though this kind of publication.”
—Artweek
—Booklist
“A beautiful volume … the reproductions throughout are of superb quality…. This monograph is an important addition to photographic literature. It is rewarding to know that the major photographic collection at the Getty will be shared though this kind of publication.”
—Artweek
Mike Weaver is reader in American literature at Oxford University.
Mike Weaver, "Whisper of the Muse: The Overstone Album and Other Photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron"
