Editing Julia Margaret Cameron (section)

==== Men ====
Cameron's portraits of men were a kind of hero-worship.<ref name="The Complete Photographs" />{{Rp|175}} To Thomas Carlyle, Cameron wrote "When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavoured to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer."<ref name="Soft-focus Photographer" />

Most of these men are well-known scientists, writers, or clergymen.<ref name="The Complete Photographs" />{{Rp|291}} Cameron turned to Old Master paintings and the contemporary idea —based in [[phrenology]]— of the ideal "type" to capture the greatness that she perceived in these eminent Victorian individuals.<ref name="Grove Art Online" /> Her aspiration to record this greatness resulted in powerful images displaying a masterly command of [[chiaroscuro]] that resulted in "the finest and most revealing gallery of eminent Victorians in existence".<ref name="The Complete Photographs" />{{Rp|292}}

Janet Malcom notes the attention Cameron paid to facial hair as an expressive element in her portraits, writing that "Her close-ups of Tennyson, Carlyle, Darwin, [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow|Longfellow]], Taylor, Watts, and Charles Cameron are as much celebrations of beards as of Victorian eminence."<ref name="Genius of the Glass House" /><gallery mode="packed" heights="300">
File:Charles Darwin by Julia Margaret Cameron, c. 1868.jpg|[[Charles Darwin]], {{c.|1868}}
File:Henry Taylor, by Julia Margaret Cameron, M198111190001.jpg|[[Henry Taylor (dramatist)|Henry Taylor]], 1865
Alfred, Lord Tennyson by Julia Margaret Cameron.jpg|[[Alfred, Lord Tennyson]]; [[Carbon print]], 1869
File:Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, photographed by Julia Margaret Cameron in 1868.jpg|[[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]], 1868
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