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The Quest for the Lost Story: feminist reading of Julia Margaret Cameron's 'Mountain Nymph Sweet Liberty'
Ist Teil von
Women's history review, 2018-02, Vol.27 (2), p.199-220
Ort / Verlag
Abingdon: Routledge
Erscheinungsjahr
2018
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Taylor & Francis
Beschreibungen/Notizen
This article suggests a feminist reading of the photograph 'Mountain Nymph Sweet Liberty' created by the early Victorian photographer, Julia Margaret Cameron. Examining this photograph in its historical context, it analyzes the unique encounter between Cameron, an upper-middle-class Anglo-Indian photographer, and her female model-subject, who came from the English lower classes. Whereas Cameron's biography is well researched and her artistic endeavors are fully acknowledged, the information on the photographed model, Annie Keene, is scarce. This article aims to reconstruct the model's life story. To fill the holes in the archival record, fiction is used to tell a detailed story of the unique professional meeting between Cameron and her sitter. The following is a feminist project intended to recover female subjectivities, whose relationships have been erased by art and history.