Editing Julia Margaret Cameron (section)

==== Women ====
Her images of women are decidedly softer than those of men. With less dramatic lighting and a more typical distance between the sitter and the camera, these images are less dynamic and more conventional.<ref name="The Complete Photographs" />{{Rp|175}}

Cameron almost exclusively photographed younger women, never making a portrait even of her neighbour and good friend [[Emily Tennyson, Lady Tennyson|Emily Tennyson]].<ref name="The Complete Photographs" />{{Rp|26}} According to a biographer of Darwin, Cameron refused to take a picture of the biologist's wife, saying that "no woman must be photographed between the ages of eighteen and seventy".<ref name="Genius of the Glass House" />

Her mature photographs of women are noted for their subtle but suggestive representation of the obscurity and malleability of female identity. Many of her images of young women obscure their individuality and represent their identity as multifaceted and changeable<ref name="The Complete Photographs" />{{Rp|68}} by showing them "in pairs, or reflected in a mirror... frequently expressive of a deep ambiguity and anxiety."<ref name="Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" />

Janet Malcolm again notes Cameron's attention to the hair of her subjects, writing that "Like the little girls whose hair was mussed to rid it of its prim nursery look, the bigger girls were made to undo their buns and chignons so that their hair would poetically stream or flow or twist around their faces".<ref name="Genius of the Glass House" /><gallery mode="packed" heights="300">
File:Sadness, by Julia Margaret Cameron.jpg|[[Ellen Terry]], 1864
File:Alice Liddell as Pomona by Julia Margaret Cameron.jpg|[[Alice Liddell]], 1872
File:Julia Jackson, by Julia Margaret Cameron, M196700880008.jpg|Julia Jackson, 1867
File:Suspense, by Julia Margaret Cameron.jpg|''Suspense'', 1864
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