Other Bloomers & Shakers: Julia Margaret Cameron, The Soul Stealer

by Nicole Wolverton

Cameron was not always a photographer. She was not an ingénue in the arts. Rather, she was born into an aristocratic family of British and French origin . . . [I]t was only when Cameron’s daughter and son-in-law gave her a camera for her 48th birthday in 1863 that Cameron earned notoriety of her own. Continue reading →

Q&A with Thomas Van Essen

I think I share John Ruskin’s view that great art is fundamentally moral, in that the deep experience of it makes you a better person, although my definition of “better person” is not one that Ruskin would recognize. Continue reading →