Call I follow, I follow, let me die!
Julia Margaret Cameron, Call I follow, I follow, let me die! (Mary Hillier), c. 1867, albumen print, The Royal Photographic Society, Bath, England

 

 

In this portrait of Mary Hillier, Cameron shot from an angle that accentuated the subject's neck and flowing hair. She used the dramatic lines from a Tennyson poem, Call, I follow, I follow, let me die! as the title for the photograph.

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