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The photographs:
Madonnas and Angelic Children
Julia Margaret CAMERON
British, 1815–79
The Return after Three Days, 1865
albumen silver photograph
22.9 x 28.0 cm
The Wilson Centre for Photography
85:2339
In this compositionally complex image Cameron has brought her camera lens
as close as possible to the heads of her sitters in an arrangement that would
have taxed the capabilities of her equipment. Cameron combines elements of
several Biblical stories in this photograph, one of which is Christ's visit
to the Temple in Jerusalem when he was twelve years old. However, the model
for Christ in this photograph is four years old. There are other obvious
disparities between the recorded event and Cameron's depiction of it,
suggesting that Cameron was evoking, rather than directly illustrating,
Biblical narratives.
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