Conference & Symposium
Fri - 15 January, 2016- 10:00-17:15
The Lydia and Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre
£35, £30 concessions, £15 students
This one-day conference will present new research on the pioneering photographer Julia Margaret Cameron's social, religious, colonial and artistic contexts. International speakers will explore themes such as Cameron’s experimental techniques and exchanges with other artists and her lasting impact and relevance for contemporary practitioners. The details of the day are as follows:
Programme
10.00 -10.30 Coffee and Registration
10.30 Welcome and Introduction, Matilda Pye, Department of Learning
New Research
Marta Weiss, Curator of Photographs, V&A
Erika Lederman, Researcher, V&A
11.15 Chance. Robin Kelsey, Shirley Carter Burden Professor of Photography, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
11.45 Little Holland House. Barbara Bryant, Independent Scholar
12.15 Discussion
13.00 Lunch Break
14.00 Religion. Joanne Lukitsh, Professor, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
14.30 Class and Colonialism. Juliet Hacking, Programme Director, MA Photography, Sotheby’s Institute
15.00 The Herschel Album. Colin Ford, Founding Director of Bradford in conversation with Martin Barnes, Senior Curator of Photographs, V&A
15.45 Refreshments
16.10 Legacies.
Cameron and Sri Lanka. Sunara Begum, Visual-Anthro-Mythologist
Cameron and Dimbola Lodge. Tracy Shields, Screenwriter
17.00 Closing Remarks
17.15 Close
To purchase tickets and for more information, V&A Museum
Also, I wanted to share two photographs one of Julia Margaret Cameron at her piano, with her son, and one of her husband Charles Hay Cameron. You will notice on Charles' photograph taped above and below it is a newspaper article about his death from 1880. I have typed it up verbatim below, so anyone inteterested can read it.
Julia Margaret Cameron at the piano, with her son, albumen print, 1863, by Oscar Gustave Rejlander
This photograph was taken at Julia Margaret Cameron's home Dimbola Lodge, Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight
Charles Hay Cameron photographed by his wife Julia Margaret Cameron,
a head and shoulder portrait against a cloth background, albumen print,
DEATH OF CHARLES HAY CAMERON,
Esq. 1880
Very many of our readers will share our regret on
learning of the death at Nuwara Eliya on Saturday last of this veteran
Anglo-Indian civilian, whose name has been so closely connected with the
administrative history of Ceylon. More than half-a-century has elapsed since
Mr. Cameron and Lieut. Colonel Colebrooke arrived from Madras as Commissioners
of Enquiry appointed to report upon all matters connected with the
administration of the Government of the Island. Their full and able reports
constituted the basis of most important reforms, including the establishment of
Executive and Legislative Councils, and the promulgation of a new Charter of
Justice for the Colony based chiefly on Mr. Cameron’s report and suggestions
which dealt specially with the judicial system. Had Mr. Cameron’s work been
done in the present day, he would have been decorated and rapidly promoted, but
in the “days of old,” prior to the advent of mail-steamers, railways,
telegraphs, and a ubiquitous press, “out of sight” was too often “out of mind.”
As we have said, however, Mr. Cameron’s name should ever be held in high esteem
in this Island both on account of his good works and of his own high personal
character. It will be remembered that Mr. and Mrs. Cameron gave up their home
in the Isle of Wight to come to Ceylon, the adopted land of several sons, in
November 1875, Mr. Cameron being then in his 80th year. After a
couple of years’ residence a visit to the old country was paid, and in November
1878 Mr. and Mrs. Cameron again returned to Ceylon. Very shortly after, Mrs.
Cameron was struck down in Jan. 1879, under circumstances which will be fresh
in the memory of our readers, and now the aged veteran has been called to
follow his life-long companion, “his own end “being as peaceful and calm” as
the sorrowing relatives who watched over him could have desired. Mr. Cameron’s
remains have been conveyed from Nuwara Eliya to the Bogawantalawa Churchyard
and interred bedside those of Mrs. Cameron.
Bogawantalawa Church, (Ceylon) now Sri Lanka
Graves of Charles Hay Cameron and Julia Margaret Cameron buried behind Bogawantalawa Church,
Sri Lanka
2 comments:
What an interesting find. I love the photographs. I wish I could attend the conference. Thanks for sharing.
Hello Kimberly,
This looks interesting and would like to attend but unfortunately I'm off to York on 15th January.
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