Posted in photography, The Hours, You Tube, tagged The Hours, Virginia Woolf, Woolf photographs, YouTube on Monday 5 April 2021| Leave a Comment »
I just stumbled across a saved email from two years ago that included a link to a 16-minute YouTube video that provides a photographic timeline of Virginia Woolf’s many looks, from youth to adult, from formal to playful.
The music accompanying the timeline, which I am belatedly sharing, is by Philip Glass, who also composed the music for the 2002 film “The Hours.”
Posted in events, Julia Margaret Cameron, photography, tagged Julia Margaret Cameron, National Portrait Gallery, Photography, Victorian, Virginia Woolf on Monday 5 February 2018| Leave a Comment »
Victorian Giants: The Birth of Art Photography, a major new exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery in London, includes Virginia Woolf’s great-aunt, Julia Margaret Cameron.
The exhibit, March 1 – May 20, also features three other celebrated figures in art photography: Lewis Carroll, Oscar Rejlander and Clementina Hawarden. These four artists would come to embody the very best in photography of the Victorian era, according to the NPG.
Julia Jackson, as photographed by Julia Margaret Cameron
Posted in photography, tagged Harvard University, Maggie Humm, Monk's House albums, Virginia Woolf on Sunday 4 February 2018| 1 Comment »
As we reported back in 2011, Virginia Woolf’s Monk’s House photos are now online, thanks to Harvard University. You can view the entire 182 pages of the photo albums, page by page.
The digitized material now available online includes all the images in Virginia Woolf’s photo albums, numbered one through six, that Frederick R. Koch gave to Harvard’s Houghton Library in 1983. They include the 1,000 photos in Maggie Humm’s 2006 book Snapshots of Bloomsbury: the Private Lives of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell.
Snapshots of Bloomsbury
In the albums are snapshots taken by Woolf and her friends and family, including portraits and scenic landscapes of their homes and travels. Virginia and Vanessa were avid photographers, using a portable Kodak to shoot their pictures. They also developed their photos, printed them and mounted them in albums.
The majority of the photographs in the album are snapshots possibly taken by Virginia Woolf or by her friends and family. The rest of the photographs include portraits or scenic landscapes of their homes or from their travels. Subjects include Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf, Julian Bell, Quentin Bell, Vanessa Bell, George Duckworth, Stella Duckworth, T. S (Thomas Stearns) Eliot, Angelica Garnett, Duncan Grant, John Lehmann, Noel Olivier, William Plomer, V. (Victoria) Sackville-West, Adrian Stephen, Julia Duckworth Stephen and Sir Leslie Stephen. Some locations of the photographs were identified.
Some were taken at the home of Leonard and Virginia Woolf, Monk’s House (Rodmell, England) and at their publishing business, Hogarth Press. Other family homes included is the childhood home of Virginia Woolf, Talland House in St. Ives (Cornwall, England) as well as the home of her sister, Vanessa Bell, Charleston Farmhouse (West Firle, England). Other locations included Sissinghurst Garden (England) as well as other locations. Virginia and Leonard Woolf also took photographs during their vacation in England, France and Germany. Most of these images are of landscapes or buildings.
Read more about the albums on Open Culture and on the My Modern Met website.
Posted in Charleston Farmhouse, films, photography, river ouse, Virginia Woolf, Woolf on TV on Friday 22 January 2016| Leave a Comment »
This video from UK TV – BBC2’s “The Culture Show” features Patti Smith’s views and photographs of sites connected to the Bloomsbury Group, from Charleston to the River Ouse.
In it, she muses on the special silvery light of the English countryside that shimmers in her black and white photos of Bloomsbury country sites.
Posted in photography, tagged Garsington album, Lady Ottoline Morrell, NPG, Virginia Woolf on Friday 3 October 2014| Leave a Comment »
Can’t make it to the last week of the exhibition Virginia Woolf: Art, Life and Vision at the National Portrait Gallery? You can see some of it online.
Society hostess Lady Ottoline Morrell’s photograph albums provide a record of guests at her homes in London and Garsington, Oxfordshire and are featured in the exhibition. You can explore her Garsington album online, which includes images of Woolf and her circle.
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