| Names: | Born: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Other: Rev. Charles Dodgson
Other: Reverend Charles Dodgson
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| | Dates: | 1832, 27 January - 1898, 14 January | | Born: | Great Britain, Cheshire, Daresbury | | Died: | Great Britain, Surrey, Guildford | | Active: | Great Britain | | Gender: | Male |
English mathematician, author of "Alice in Wonderland" and a number of classics of children‘s literature, and photographer.Preparing biographies
General reading
Mavor, Carol, 1995, Pleasures Taken: Performances of Sexuality and Loss in Victorian Photographs, (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press) [LL_REF:253]
Readings on, or by, individual photographers
Cohen, Morton N, 1978, Lewis Carroll, Photographer of Children: Four Nude Studies, (Philadelphia: Rosenbach Foundation and Clarkson N. Potter) [LL_REF:54]
Cohen, Morton N, 1995, Lewis Carroll: A Biography, (New York: Knopf) [LL_REF:53]
Gernsheim, Helmut, 1950, Lewis Carroll: Photographer, (London: Max Parrish) [2nd edition] [LL_REF:148]
Mavor, Carol, 1994, Dream Rushes: Lewis Carroll's Photographs of Girl-Children, (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press) [LL_REF:252]
Taylor, Roger & Wakeling, Edward, 2002, Lewis Carroll: Photographer, (Princeton: Princeton University Press) isbn-13: 978-0691074436 [LL_REF:715]
If you feel this list is missing a significant book or article please let me know - Alan - alan@luminous-lint.com
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Family history
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 | Lewis Carroll: Portraits of Alice Liddell |
|  | Lewis Carroll: Portraits of Xie Kitchin |
|  | Lewis Carroll: St. George and the Dragon |
|  | Lewis Carroll: Twyford |
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All photographs by this photographer
The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers. |
• Auer, Michele & Michel 1985 Encyclopedie Internationale Des Photographes de 1839 a Nos Jours / Photographers Encylopaedia International 1839 to the present (Hermance, Editions Camera Obscura) 2 volumes [A classic reference work for biographical information on photographers.]
• Beaton, Cecil & Buckland, Gail 1975 The Magic Eye: The Genius of Photography from 1839 to the Present Day (Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown & Company) p.54 [Useful short biographies with personal asides and one or more example images.]
• Lenman, Robin (ed.) 2005 The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (Oxford: Oxford University Press) [Includes a short biography on Lewis Carroll.]
• Witkin, Lee D. and Barbara London 1979 The Photograph Collector’s Guide (London: Secker and Warburg) p.108-109 [Long out of print but an essential reference work - the good news is that a new edition is in preparation.]
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If there is an analysis of a single photograph or a useful self portrait I will highlight it here. |
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