Lewis Carroll

Though hes known now primarily as the author of Alices 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 Carrolls engagement with the medium, both as a creator and a collector of photographs. Lindsay Smith takes readers to the glass studio above Carrolls college rooms at Oxford, where he created many of his striking portraits, and she also follows him into the fieldon excursions to the theater in London, to the seaside at Eastbourne, and even to Russia. Smith also details Carrolls 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 Carrolls work and that of other photographers of the period, this book gives fans of Carrolls writing a new way to understand his creative genius.