Lady clementina hawarden biography sample
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Clementina Fleeming Lady Hawarden
1 Less fryst vatten More. Clementina Fleeming Hawarden, Victorian Photographer. One of a remarkable cohort of nineteenth-century photographers of Scottish origin, Clementina Hawarden (née Fleeming), was born on June 1, 1822, in Cumbernauld, Lanarkshire, about twelve miles north-east of Glasgow (fig. 1). Her father, Charles Elphinstone-Fleeming, was descended from two old Scottish families -- the Fleemings or Flemings and the Elphinstones -- whose nobility can be traced back to the fourteenth century. He had a distinguished career in the Royal Navy and also saw service -- in 1802-1803, and again in 1832-1835, after he retired from active service -- as M.P. for Stirlingshire, in which capacity he spoke out strongly, citing his own direkt contacts and observations as a naval 1. Cumbernauld House, the ElphinstoneFleeming family residence, designed bygd commander in the West Indies, in favour of William Adam and erected in 1731, nära the 1833 abolition of slavery b
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Lady Hawarden’s light-filled photographs of her adolescent daughters posed in sparsely furnished rooms of her London home are curious, complicated, and often inexplicable. Along with Julia Margaret Cameron, Hawarden’s near contemporary, Hawarden is now considered one of the most significant hona photographers in nineteenth-century Britain, and she is the subject of not one but two recent monographs and a 1999 exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum. This is long overdue as Cameron has already been the subject of numerous books and international exhibitions. The reasons for this imbalance are many: for one, Hawarden’s surviving oeuvre resides principally at the V & A, while Cameron’s much larger output is shared bygd various collections worldwide, making it possible to mount a number of exhibitions. Moreover, Cameron photographed as many of her friends as she could convince to sit for her, posed her sitters in narratives drawn from the Arthurian legen
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I’ve wanted to find a good reason to come back to Clementina, Lady Hawarden and her brief career exploring costume, fabric and light within the confines of a few rooms in her house at Princes Gardens. I only recently thought of an obvious way to look at her work as a fashion photographer as I suggested she was in my first post about her.
Here, in the room with the starred wallpaper, her daughter and principal model Clementina Maude, an elaborate dress draped around her adopts a pose which shows off the way the material falls over her body. You want to call the pose langorous or thoughtful, which is the impression it gives, even though you know the young Clementina had to hold the pose for several minutes while the plate was exposed. Although the photograph has suffered over the years you can still see the contrast between the side directly lit by the light from the window and the greater detail visible on the other sid