i particularly like julia margaret cameron's picture of sir john herschel (and it's as good a place as any to start getting an insight into that particular milieu) so i was really interested to read this essay in the public domain review. it's no surprise that the doings of a wealthy englishwoman in the 19th century were funded by, to our eyes, some pretty exploitative business practices but the writer manages to let the reader amke up their own mind about that, rather than the leaden, uninspiring virtual signalling that characterises so much of this type of writing these days.
do the writer's somehow imagine that their posturing somehow removes them from the fact that the very things they're complaining about were part of the process that got them where they are? so yes, julia margaret cameron's pictures are great to look at. but before we start judging we should consider ourselves, who sit with our phones, our computers, our blogs, the most privileged, wealthy generation ever to walk the planet, and what we're doing with that privilege
do the writer's somehow imagine that their posturing somehow removes them from the fact that the very things they're complaining about were part of the process that got them where they are? so yes, julia margaret cameron's pictures are great to look at. but before we start judging we should consider ourselves, who sit with our phones, our computers, our blogs, the most privileged, wealthy generation ever to walk the planet, and what we're doing with that privilege
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