This exhibition, Portraits to Dream In, will juxtapose the lives and work of two of the most important & popular women practitioners in the history of photography – Julia Margaret Cameron ( 1815 – 1875) and Francesca Woodman (1958 – 1981).
Spanning their careers, the exhibition includes some of their best-known and most loved work as well as lesser-known photographs.
Julia Margaret Cameron and Francesca Woodman encountered very different ways of making and viewing photographs. However, there are many fascinating resonances between the two.
Despite the passage of time that separates them, both women worked for a relatively short and concentrated period. To date, their careers and output have, to some degree, been read with an emphasis on their biographic circumstance. In contrast, this exhibition proposes new ways of appreciating and thinking about these important artists, portraiture and the relationships between 19th and 20th century photographic practice.
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Collections
Photographs
General Information
Created In
2021
Available Package Options
Turnkey
Collection and interpretation
Content only
Technical Requirements
High security
High conservation
More Details About Technical Requirements
Size: Approximately 120 works
Area: from ca 400-700 m2
Available from: Summer 2024
Can be translated into any language.
Languages
English
Other
Additional Information
For further information please contact: pvelge@npg.org.uk
Extra Info
Highlights
Curatorial excellence
Star object
Treasure collection
Interactivity
Highlights Details
Portraits to Dream In will contain roughly 120 original prints, offering visitors the opportunity to consider these two artists in a new light. Its thematic structure of groups and rooms will explore different ideas – both visual and conceptual – that underpin Cameron’s and Woodman’s work. Such as, process, artistic intentions, and formal qualities.
Cameron and Woodman provide approachable and inspiring points of entry to photography for students and young people around the world. At the same time, the depth of their practices and the significance of their artistic legacies gives them the rare quality of sustaining an enduring engagement with specialist audiences and life-long lovers of the visual arts.
