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Lewis Carroll
A charming monograph on the photography of the much-loved children's author, Lewis Carroll.
Anne Higonnet
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Overview
- Lewis Carroll (1832–98), author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, is also recognized as one of the most influential Victorian portrait photographers
- The best introductory monograph available on Carroll’s photography
- Documents the development of his career through a chronological sequence
of images - Includes his famous portraits of the original Alice who inspired the stories and eminent Victorians such as Alfred Lord Tennyson and John Everett Millais
- Offers a fresh perspective on Carroll’s life and works, and provides insightful analysis of the photographs and their subjects
- A fascinating portrait of Victorian England from the eye of one of the world’s
best-loved children’s authors which will appeal to photography and history enthusiasts, as well as the many fans of his writing
Specifications
- Hardback
- English
- 270 x 216 mm, 10 5/8 x 8 1/2 in
- 128 pp
- 56 black and white illustrations
- ISBN-13: 9780714842820
- ISBN-10: 0714842826
About the book
Known the world over for his stories of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) also pursued a photographic career, demonstrated by this beautiful collection of 55 vintage photographs. We enter Carroll's wonderfully strange world with studies of anatomical skeletons taken during his years spent at Christ Church College, Oxford. This is followed by compelling portraits of children including Alice Liddell, the inspiration for the protagonist of his popular novel, alongside those of his family members and eminent Victorians such as Alfred Lord Tennyson and John Everett Millais. A dedicated and prolific photographer, Carroll created approximately 3,000 images during his twenty-five years of photographic activity. This monograph will be irresistibly essential to Carroll enthusiasts and novices alike, as well as anyone interested in Victorian England or the history of photography.
About the author(s)
Anne Higonnet is Professor of Art History at Barnard College, Columbia University, and author of Pictures of Innocence: The History and Crisis of Ideal Childhood (Thames & Hudson), a ground-breaking study of the visual representation of children from the Enlightenment to today. Her two books on Impressionist Berthe Morisot, the biography Berthe Morisot (Harper Collins) and Berthe Morisot's Images of Women (Harvard UP), are considered seminal texts on the artist. Higonnet's essays on art and culture have appeared in the Yale Journal of Criticism, Art History and numerous other venues.
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