From Life

"Celebrated pioneer photographer, Julia Margaret Cameron was also at the center of an elite circle of English artists and writers who shaped a generation of Victorian culture. Working in the 1860s, when photography was still young, Cameron defied the conventions of the scientific photographic establishment to insist that photography could be an art form." "Born of English and French parents in Calcutta in 1815, Cameron was a scion of the colonial ruling class. She lived the typical life of a memsahib - marrying a high-ranking Member of the Council of India and raising six children - until her…