The story of Queen Victoria is surprisingly and deeply intertwined with
the birth of photography as a medium. In an exhibition opening at The Getty Museum in Los Angeles on
Feb. 4, curator Anne Lyden has organized a comprehensive look at
Victoria’s relationship to and influence on photography, from her first
encounters with it as a young woman to her seminal Diamond Jubilee
portrait. Victoria grasped from a young age what it would take the rest
of the world many years to realize: that photography could be both an
artistic medium as well as a mechanism of propaganda.
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