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2. Julia Margaret Cameron: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle, 1867

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Colin Ford explores how five groundbreaking photographs changed the world: Julia Cameron's life-size head portrait. From 1999.

Colin Ford tells the stories behind five groundbreaking photographs and how they changed the world.

Julia Margaret Cameron (1815 - 1879) - Portrait of Thomas Carlyle , 1867. The significance of this haunting portrait is in the life-size reproduction of the head. Her work changed portraiture for ever, asking not just who, but what am I?

Producer: Hilary Dunn

First broadcast on 麻豆社 Radio 4 in 1999.

15 minutes

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Tue 3 Dec 2024 09:30
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