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Description: | A photograph of a young girl staring at a flower in her hand, taken by Emma Barton (1872-1938) in about 1903. Barton's own family often posed for her. In this photograph Barton sees Saint Margaret as a tussle-haired young girl, her head seemingly ringed by a halo. Idealised religious and allegorical studies had been a popular theme with art photographers during the 1850s and 1860s. The Pictorialist movement of photographers revived the theme in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Barton was one of relatively few women working in the predominantly male world of dedicated amateur photographers. In this respect Barton can be considered to be a pioneering figure in the creative development of photography as an expressive art. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Subjects: | carbon print photograph | Temporal: | c. 1902 | Source: | Science Museum | Creator: | Barton, Emma (1872-1938) | Identifier: | 2003-5001/2/20131 | Go to resource |
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