Photography
Julia Margaret Cameron was a prominent early photographer who has a museum dedicated to her work at Dimbola Lodge in Freshwater. She specialised in portraits of the many celebrities who visited her neighbour Lord Tennyson at Farringford.
Beken of Cowes, established in 1888 by the pharmacist Alfred Edward Beken, pioneered yachting photography and is a leading British marine photography companies.
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Famous quotes containing the word photography:
“Too many photographers try too hard. They try to lift photography into the realm of Art, because they have an inferiority complex about their Craft. You and I would see more interesting photography if they would stop worrying, and instead, apply horse-sense to the problem of recording the look and feel of their own era.”
—Jessie Tarbox Beals (1870–1942)
“If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thanks to the natural support it will find in the stupidity of the multitude. It must return to its real task, which is to be the servant of the sciences and the arts, but the very humble servant, like printing and shorthand which have neither created nor supplanted literature.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)