Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron: Portraits to Dream In
Curated by Magdalene Keaney, London, National Portrait Gallery (March 21 – June 16, 2024)
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https://doi.org/10.51427/com.jcs.2025.8.8Keywords:
Francesca Woodman, Julia Margaret Cameron, Pictorialism, Photography, SurrealismAbstract
This review focuses on an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London, entitled “Francesca Woodman & Julia Margaret Cameron: Portraits to Dream in”, curated by Magdalene Keaney, which ran from March 21 to June 16, 2024. The aim of this review is to understand how an exhibition brought together two artists separated by countries and by a century, highlighting the curator's exhibition choices, and how this association also contributed to a new reading of their photographic work. Seemingly distant, the exhibition made visible bridges of connection, mutual influences, differentiated the paths that each followed and, above all, made possible a dialog around the dreamlike sharing of both.
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