Reflections in a looking glass : a centennial celebration of Lewis Carroll, photographer / Morton N. Cohen ; afterword by Roy Flukinger ; postscript by Mark Haworth-Booth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohen, Morton N. (Morton Norton), 1921-2017.

Contributor:

Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.

Flukinger, Roy, 1947-

Haworth-Booth, Mark.

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898--Exhibitions.

Carroll, Lewis.

Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.

Exhibitions.

Genre:

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

143 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 30 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

[New York, N.Y.] : Aperture, [1998]

Summary:

Published on the one hundredth anniversary of the death of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), Reflections in a Looking Glass presents Carroll's remarkable photography. Richly illustrated, this important book presents seldom-seen works -- most of them format portraits and staged scenes that combine Carroll's famous childlike sense of pray with the Victorian propriety that characterized his age.

Also included in Reflections are selected drawings by Lewis Carroll and by John Tenniel, who illustrated the original Alice books. The central text by Morton N. Cohen, the world's leading authority on Lewis Carroll provides an in-depth account of Caroll's experimentations in the new medium of photography. His hobby opened the door to many of his "child friends" as well as to reading artistic and literary figures of the day, all of whom came to Carroll's studio to sit for their portraits.

Excerpts from Carroll's diaries combine with Cohen's annotated captions to make this book an invaluable resource. The book also includes a Preface by Mark Haworth-Booth, curator of photographs at the Victoria and Albert Museum. The Afterword is by Roy Flukinger, curator of photographs at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin, the source collection for much of the material in this extraordinary book.

Notes:

Published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition held at the HRHRC at the University of Texas at Austin, Sept. 14, 1998-Jan. 5, 1999, and at three other locations in New York and California through March 26, 2000

Includes bibliographical reference (page 138) and index.

ISBN:

0893817961

OCLC:

40465473