Monday 9th February: Pioneering Women Photographers 1860-1920

From the earliest days of photography, women claimed this new art for their own.  This lecture offers a new vision of the Victorians, seen through the lenses of pioneering women.  It includes the intimate fantasies of Clementina, Lady Hawarden; the soft-focus story-telling made by Julia Margaret Cameron; and radical portraits captured by the Suffrage campaigner Olive Edis.

Lecturer: Suzanne Fagence Cooper

Suzanne is an art historian working on 19th and 20th Century British art. She was a curator and Research Fellow at the V&A Museum, and is currently Honorary Visiting Fellow at the University of York. She has curated a major exhibition on John Ruskin and J.M.W.Turner and plans an exhibition on William Morris.

(Image credit: Wikimedia Commons)