Dear Sugar Letter #18

Mothers and Daughters

“My Grandchild,”1865, albumen print, Julia Margaret Cameron. Cameron was a 48-year-old British mother of six in 1863 when her daughter, also named Julia, gave her a camera for Christmas. Of that gift, Cameron wrote, “From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour and it has become to me as a living thing, with voice and memory and creative…