National Portrait Gallery, St Martin’s Place, London, UK

March 21 through June 16, 2024

www.npg.org.uk

Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron: Portraits to Dream In offers fresh perspectives on the work of two of the most influential women in the history of photography who lived and worked nearly a century apart. The exhibition presents their work in extended thematic dialogues around mythology, doubling, the classical form, and more, revealing a shared space in each artists’ approach to portraiture which curator Magdalene Keaney describes as “the Dream Space.” In her essay for the exhibition’s catalogue, Keaney writes that considering Woodman's and Cameron’s work together suggests that “remaining fluid and alert to possible similarities and points of departure that arise pictorially, structurally and metaphorically between the two, opens up new ways of appreciating and thinking about these important artists, portraiture and the relationship between nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographic practice.”

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