This volume explores the rich dialogue between photography and painting through the themes of landscape, portraiture, literary and historical narratives and modern-life subjects. These artists - from photographers Lewis Carroll, Julia Margaret Cameron, Roger Fenton, Henry Peach Robinson and Oscar Gustave Rejlander, to such painters as John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John William Inchbold - not only had much in common, but also upended traditional approaches to making pictures.

Foreword

Lenders to the Exhibition

Note to the Reader

Introduction

Uncompromising Truth: Photography and Pre-Raphaelitism

Diane Waggoner

An Antidote to Mechanical Poison:John Ruskin, Photography,

and Early Pre-Raphaelite Painting

Tim Barringer

PLATES 1 - 27 Minute Details

"Certain Dark Rays of the Sunbeam": Sunlight and the

Decomposition of Landscape

Jennifer L. Roberts

PLATES 28 - 49 NaturalEffects

From the Life: Portraiture in the 186os

Diane Waggoner

PLATES 50 - 7b, Portraits and Studies

"Like a Lionardo": Exchanges between Julia Margaret Cameron

and the Rossetti Brothers

Joanne Lukitsh

PLATES 75-103 Poetic Subjects

Show and Tell: Narrative in Victorian Art

Britt Salvesen

PLATES 104 - 125 Romance and Modern Life

Select Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

Photography Credits