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W:Hi, got any plans for tonight?
M:Hi, not yet. Any suggestions?
W:I just got two tickets to the opening of an exhibit of reprints by Julia Margaret Cameron.
M:An exhibit? I like such things. But I don’t know who Julia...
W:Margaret Cameron! She was a photographer in the 1800s. She is interesting to art historians in general and students of photography in particular because she changes the aesthetics for photography.
M:What do you mean?
W:Well,her specialty was portraits and instead of just making a factual record of details like most photog raphers did, you know, just capturing what a person looks like in a dispassionate thought of way, she, like a portrait painter, was interested in capturing her subject’s personality.
M:Interesting!How did she do that?
W:She invented a number of techniques that affect the picture. Like one of those things she did was to blur images slightly by using a soft focus on the subject. That’s pretty common now.
M:Yeah, I’ve seen that. Who did she photograph?
W:Famous people of her day, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Charles Darwin... We’ll see at the exhibition.
M:You really pick my curiosity. I am going to enjoy this.