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Sarah Angelina Acland: First Lady of Colour Photography
Giles Hudson
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Description for Sarah Angelina Acland: First Lady of Colour Photography
Hardcover. The first book about the life, career, and pictures of this pioneering photographic artist (1849-1930), this is a richly illustrated introduction to the beginnings of colour photography, featuring previously unpublished specimens of photographic art, including four unrecorded child portraits by Lewis Carroll. Num Pages: 304 pages, 188 black & white halftones, 124 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; ACV; AJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 288 x 252 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1974.
Sarah Angelina Acland (1849-1930) is one of the most important photographers of the late Victorian and early Edwardian periods. Daughter of the Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford, she was photographed by Lewis Carroll as a child, along with her close friend Ina Liddell, sister of Alice of Wonderland fame. The critic John Ruskin taught her art and she also knew many of the Pre-Raphaelites, holding Rossetti's palette for him as he painted the Oxford Union murals. At the age of nineteen she met the photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, whose influence is evident in her early work.
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Sarah Angelina Acland (1849-1930) is one of the most important photographers of the late Victorian and early Edwardian periods. Daughter of the Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford, she was photographed by Lewis Carroll as a child, along with her close friend Ina Liddell, sister of Alice of Wonderland fame. The critic John Ruskin taught her art and she also knew many of the Pre-Raphaelites, holding Rossetti's palette for him as he painted the Oxford Union murals. At the age of nineteen she met the photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, whose influence is evident in her early work.
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Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781851243723
SKU
V9781851243723
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About Giles Hudson
Giles Hudson is a social historian of science and photography, specializing in portraiture, women photographers and early colour.
Reviews for Sarah Angelina Acland: First Lady of Colour Photography
'Startlingly beautiful … High time, then, that Acland's place in the history of photography should be so comprehensively examined, and restored.'
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