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Julia Margaret Cameron Quotes

From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour, and it has become to me as a living thing, with voice and memory and creative vigour.

Julia Margaret Cameron (1973). “Victorian photographs of famous men & fair women”, David R. Godine Publisher

I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.

Julia Margaret Cameron (1973). “Victorian photographs of famous men & fair women”, David R. Godine Publisher

From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour.

Julia Margaret Cameron, Anita Ventura Mozley (1974). “"Mrs. Cameron's Photographs from the Life": Exhibition Held 22 January-10 March 1974, Stanford University Museum of Art”