Portrait of Sir John Herschel
Also titled Portret van Sir John Herschel
Julia Margaret Cameron (Kolkata, 1815–na 1)
1867
- Medium
- cardboard, paper
- Classification
- photograph
- Dimensions
- height 355 mm x width 279 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
The reason why this portrait is out of focus is not because its maker was a ‘mere’ amateur unskilled in photography. Cameron deliberately adjusted her lens so that the image would not be sharp. In order to be ‘art’, a photograph should not merely copy reality as exactly as possible. Cameron is the most famous 19th-century photographer who used blurriness to achieve an artistic effect.
