Cameron was 48 years old when she obtained her first camera, given to her as a gift by her daughter and son-in-law. "From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour," she wrote upon receiving it, "and it has become to me as a living thing, with voice and memory and creative vigour." Cameron was religious, well-read and a bit eccentric, having friends in the Victorian poetry and science circles like Alfred Lord Tennyson and Sir John Herschel. These accomplished compatriots soon became Cameron's favorite subjects.
Meet Julia Margaret Cameron, The Victorian Queen Of Contemporary Photography
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