Victorian Photography Photograph by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) The students on the MA Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture programme are currently thinking about the role of photography in nineteenth-century culture. How far did the technological developments associated with photography and cinema affect the ways in which people saw the world? How did photographs and film mediate reality? These are the questions we'll be considering as we explore the work of some of the photographers of this period. Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) by Tara Kavanagh Heralded as a pioneer of photography, Julia Cameron didn’t pick up a camera until she was 48. She wrote: ‘From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour […] and it has become to me as a living thing, with voice and memory and creative vigour’. [1] She is remembered as one of the most innovative photographers of the age who, in her eleven-year career, captured some of the most famous