Lewis Carroll : photography on the move / Lindsay Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Lindsay, author.

Contributor:

Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898, photographer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography, Artistic.

Photography of children.

Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.

Carroll, Lewis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 pages) : illustrations, photographs

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, [England] : Reaktion Books, 2015.

Summary:

Though he's known now primarily as the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, in his lifetime Lewis Carroll was interested at least as much in photography as in writing. This book offers a close look at Carroll's engagement with the medium, both as a creator and a collector of photographs. Lindsay Smith takes readers to the glass studio above Carroll's college rooms at Oxford, where he created many of his striking portraits, and she also follows him into the field-on excursions to the theater in London, to the seaside at Eastbourne, and even to Russia. Smith also details Carroll's enthusiastic work as a collector, in which role he arranged portrait sittings for photographers whose work he admired.Beautifully illustrated with a generous selection of Carroll's work and that of other photographers of the period, this book gives fans of Carroll's writing a new way to understand his creative genius.

Contents:

Cover

Lewis Carroll: Photography on the Move

Imprint Page

Contents

Introduction

1. 'The [Glass] House': Christ Church, Oxford

2. Carroll on the Train

3. The Play House: Carroll at the Theatre in London

4. Carroll in Russia: Shopping for Photographs and Icons

5. Ore House, Hastings: Stammering, Speech Therapy and the Voice of Infancy

6. 7 Lushington Road, Eastbourne

Postscript

References

Bibliography

Acknowledgements

Photo Acknowledgements

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 12, 2017).

ISBN:

9781780235455

1780235453

OCLC:

967876255