It is almost impossible for someone to determine what is this that gives the impact to a photographer’s images. However in Cameron’s pictures I would dare to say that it is the combination of visual presence with absolute narrative hints. A combination that makes the theatricality a dominant element of her pictures. But the appearance of theatricality is not enough to stimulate the emotions. The viewer has to convinced for the tragically of her characters. The models gaze is lost to one another and to us. The title speaks for a kiss, but kiss there is none. The lips passively seek, but the gaze escapes. The title speaks for peace, but peace looks like a death how is expected. Everything is hinted, because Cameron knows that what is declared disappears. Whether it is sadness, happiness or love.
Cameron was the first and well-known photographer with coherent and conscious artwork. Her work is consists of three types of portraits. Those of her famous artist, scientist and friends, those of close friends from her surrounding environment and those that she did for the illustration of the poetic book of her friend Alfred Tennyson with name of Knights of the table Stroggylis.
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