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2. Julia Margaret Cameron: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle, 1867

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Colin Ford explores how five groundbreaking photographs changed the world: Julia Cameron's life-size head portrait. From 1999.

Colin Ford tells the stories behind five groundbreaking photographs and how they changed the world.

Julia Margaret Cameron created the Portrait of Thomas Carlyle in 1867.

The significance of this haunting portrait is in the life-size reproduction of the head.

Her work changed portraiture for ever, asking not just who, but what am I?

Producer: Hilary Dunn

First broadcast on 大象传媒 Radio 4 in December 1999.

15 minutes

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