Teaching and Research Profile
Current Teaching
As Programme Director of the MA in Photography (Contemporary & Historical) Juliet teaches a course unit on nineteenth-century photography which embraces artistic, commercial and instrumental practices. She also leads ‘The Photographic Body’, a course unit designed to explore the emergence of a validating network for photography (journals, clubs, museums, galleries, dealers, the market). In Semester Two, she leads the course unit ‘Academic and Professional Practice’ and contributes to the Option course ‘Global Photography’. Juliet also co-teaches the course unit on Research Methodology and leads the majority of visits to archives, galleries and museums.
Research Interests
Juliet’s particular emphasis as regards research is the nineteenth century, particularly British photography in the late 1850s and 1860s. Her research encompasses major figures such as Charles Ludwidge Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll), Lady Clementina Hawarden, Oscar Rejlander, Henry Peach Robinson, David Wilkie Wynfield and Julia Margaret Cameron. It also encompasses the evolution of photography into a mass market commodity in the shape of the carte-de-visite (miniature portrait photograph). The interplay between so-called ‘amateur’ and ‘professional’ practices is an abiding interest and to this end she has made an in-depth study of the studio portraiture of Camille Silvy.
Biography
Juliet studied for her BA, MA and PhD at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, and was awarded British Academy studentships for her postgraduate studies. Her MA dissertation is entitled ‘Hand and Soul: The Photographs of David Wilkie Wynfield’ and her PhD ‘Photography Personified: Art and Identity in British Photography 1857-1869’. Before and after completing her doctoral thesis she worked as a Visiting Lecturer at the Universities of Derby and Reading and at the Courtauld Institute. Juliet then took a year-long research post at the National Portrait Gallery where she was offered the opportunity to curate the exhibition and write the book Princes of Victorian Bohemia: Photographs by David Wilkie Wynfield. In 2000 she joined Sotheby’s in Bond Street as the cataloguer for the Photographs department; she was made Head of Department in 2003. Juliet joined Sotheby's Institute of Art, London, in summer 2006.
Current Research
Lost in Translation? Contemporary Photography from China (Courtauld Institute of Art, research seminar, October 2008)
Untruth to Nature: Photobiography and Mid-19th Century British Landscape Photography (University of Bristol, research seminar, December 2008)
Publications
‘The Eroticised Victorian Child: Mrs Holford’s Daughter’, in Godfrey, T. (ed.) Thinking Through the Eye, London: Lund Humphries (forthcoming)
Contributor to PLUK magazine (Photography in London, the UK, and Europe], 2006-07
'Collecting Photographs', Parts I & 2, Antique Collectors Magazine, Winter 2005/06 and Spring 2006
Entries for Alice Hughes, Oscar Rejlander, D.W. Wynfield and Madame Yevonde in The New Dictionary of National Biography (2005)
Review of Exposed: The Victorian Nude (Tate Britain 2001/02), Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide (online journal of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture), 2001, www.19thc-artworldwide.org
Princes of Victorian Bohemia: Photographs by David Wilkie Wynfield, London: NPG & Prestel, 2000
Introductory essay, in Lucinda Hawksley, The Essential Pre-Raphaelites, London: The Foundry Press, 2000
'Pretty Babies', British Journal of Photography, no. 7241, 8 Sept 1999, pp. 22-3
'Candid Camera', British Journal of Photography, no.7124, 30 April 1997, pp. 21-3
'D.W. Wynfield: "The Great Amateur"', History of Photography, vol. 19, no. 4, Winter 1995, pp. 332-7
Conference Papers
‘To Degrade it & Secure for it the Character & Uses of Base Art: Cameron’s True Ambition for Photography’, Julia Margaret Cameron Conference, National Media Museum, Bradford, July 2003
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