Archive For: Victorian Photography

AI generated images can imitate the visual language of photography, but in doing so they disrupt our traditional understanding of what a photograph is. Unlike conventional photographs, generative AI images often have no physical subject or original photographic event. This makes studying them interesting when considered through photographic theory, documentary truth, indexicality and Jean Baudrillard’s

This is a look into the life and work of both Cornelius Jabez Hughes and Gustav Mullins, Royal photographers and an important part of both Isle of Wight history and photographic history.

Being a photographer who is interested in both local history and art history, it seems fitting to look at a few pictures by the one of the most famous British Victorian photographers and sometime Isle of Wight resident, Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879). Much has been written and reviewed about Cameron’s work, not all of it