[originaltext]W: Hey, Steve, got any plans for tonight?M: Hi! Jane. No, I don’

W: Hey, Steve, got any plans for tonight?
M: Hi! Jane. No, I don’t think se. Why? Got any suggestions?
W: In fact, I do. I just got two tickets to the opening of the exhibition of the reprints by Julia Margaret Cameron. I would have mentioned it earlier, but I was on the waiting list for these tickets and I wasn’t sure if I’d even get them.
M: An exhibition, huh? I like such things. But I don’t know who Julia...
W: Margaret Cameron! She was a photographer in the 1800s. She is interesting to art historians in general and students of photography in particular because she.., how should I say, change the aesthetics for photography.
M: What do you mean?
W: Well, her specialty was portraits and instead of just making a factual record of details like most photographers did, you know, just capturing what a person looks like in a dispassionate though: of way. She, like a portrait painter, was interested in capturing her subject’s Personality.
M: Interesting! How did she do that?
W: She invented a number of techniques that affect the picture. Like one of those things she did was blur images slightly by using a soft focus on the subject. That’s pretty common now.
M: Yeah, seems that way. Who did she photograph?
W: Famous people of her day, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Charles Darwin..., I don’t know who else. We’ll see at the exhibition.
M: You really pick my curiosity. I am going to enjoy this.