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Julia Margaret Cameron was a British photographer who became known for her portraits of celebrities of the time.

She took up photography at the relatively late age of 48, when she was given a camera as a present.

Cameron's photographic career was short, spanning eleven years of her life (1864–1875).

Although her style was not widely appreciated in her own day, her work has had an impact on modern photographers, especially her closely cropped portraits.

But 'Julia Margaret Cameron,' a small, striking show at the Metropolitan Museum in new York , makes her out to be a singular phenomenon. Incredibly, it’s her first solo exhibition at the Met.

The Mountain Nymph Sweet Liberty June 1866: Julia Margaret Cameron was one of the greatest portraitists in the history of photography Philip Stanhope Worsley: An Oxford-educated poet who translated the Odyssey and part of the Iliad into Spenserian verse, Worsley died of tuberculosis at the age of thirty. Cameron's portrait was made the year of his death