Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron

Like Woodman, Cameron’s photographic claim was never to verisimilitude. Like Cameron, Woodman wanted to show something that could only be seen in photographs. Dreams as real as unreal.–Emily LaBarge “4Columns”
The intriguing pairing of two disparate female pioneers is a quietly subversive way of exploring their work anew, from a perspective that elevates and contrasts their imaginative strategies rather than their respective life stories.–Sean O’Hagan “Guardian”
The pairing is most enlightening in the way it illuminates how gender and sexuality play out through the artists’ drastically different versions of femininity.–Natalie Haddad “Hyperallergic”

Magdalene Keaney is Curator at the National Portrait Gallery of Australia. She was Senior Curator, Photographs at the National Portrait Gallery, London, from 2018-2022. Recent contributions to publications include Women at Work: 1900 to Now (National Portrait Gallery, London, 2023), Yevonde: Life and Colour (National Portrait Gallery, London, 2023), and 100 Fashion Icons (National Portrait Gallery, London, 2019).

Helen Ennis is Professor Emeritus at the Centre for Art History and Art Theory at the Australian National University, Canberra. A photo historian and writer specializing in women photographers and writing women’s biographies, she was the recipient of the 2021 Royal Photographic Society Dudley Medal for her contribution to the history of photography. Recent publications include the award-winning biography Olive Cotton: A Life in Photography (Fourth Estate, 2019).

Katarina Jerinic is the Collections Curator at the Woodman Family Foundation and an artist. She was the curator of the Estate of Francesca Woodman for more than a decade prior, during which time she facilitated numerous international exhibitions of and publications on Woodman’s work. She recently contributed the text for Francesca Woodman: The Artist’s Books (London: Mack, 2023).

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