Lewis Carroll, Photographer
by Helmut Gernsheim
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Lewis Carroll, photographer by Lewis Carroll (1969)Tags
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waltzmn Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) is best known for the Alice books, but he was also an early photographer -- and is considered the first great photographer of children. Simon Winchester's book is largely about one image taken by Dodgson, "The Beggar Maid." Helmut Gernsheim's volume gives a greater context, discussing all of Dodgson's photographic career.
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Excellent book with many reproductions of Lewis Carroll's photographic works, mostly portraits. Diary entries of Lewis Carroll are also reproduced. Why did he give up photography so suddenly? That is not revealed.
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- Original publication date
- 1949
- People/Characters
- Charles Dodgson / Lewis Carroll
- Dedication
- In honour
and loving memory of
ALISON EAMES GERNSHEIM
through twenty-seven years
of marriage a wonderful companion,
ideal collaborator and
wise counsellor - First words
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Preface to the Dover Edition
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Apart from this new preface and the incorporation of the Addenda to the Second Edition, published in 1950, in ... (show all)the main body of the book, only a few minor alterations became necessary due to change of ownership of certain albums and photographs.
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Preface to the First Edition
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It is a remarkable coincidence that while collecting material for my biography of Julia Margaret Cameron my at... (show all)tention was drawn to an album of another great mid-Victorian amateur photographer -- Lewis Carroll.
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Art & Design, Biography & Memoir, Literature Studies and Criticism
- DDC/MDS
- 770.924 — Arts & recreation Photography Photography & Computer / Digital Art Biography And History Biography
- LCC
- PR4612 .G4 — Language and Literature English English Literature 19th century , 1770/1800-1890/1900
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- English
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