Dreaming in Pictures: The Photography of Lewis Carroll
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Lenny's description:
This book was meant to accompany the exhibit of the photography of Lewis Carroll that visited the San Francisco Museum of Art in 2002, Houston in 2003, and the Art Institute of Chicago in 2004.
The volume features the photographic work of Lewis Carroll, and each photo has an attached discussion.
Nickel focuses on the subject matter of Carroll's photographs and how it relates to the Victorian preoccupation with symbolism in art. He also discusses some previous interpretations of Carroll's work, including speculations about Carroll's personal relationships with the girls in his pictures.
Seller's description:
Lewis Carroll was the pen-name of the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, the author of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and other beloved children's books. But before achieving fame as an author, Carroll was a prolific and sophisticated photographer, acutely engaged in the art world of Victorian England. This illustrated volume examines Carroll's photographs not as the sideline of a celebrated writer, but as the creations of a serious photographic artist, and demonstrates their importance to the history of photography. Douglas Nickel traces the evolution in thought about Carroll's photography in the period since his death, demonstrating the ways it has been viewed largely through the filter of his literary reputation. Key to this have been certain preconceptions built up around Carroll's attitudes toward children, especially Alice Liddell, the inspiration for his first book and the subject of a number of his photographs. Nickel demonstrates how, by overturning the modern myths that have attached themselves to Carroll's photography, the works themselves can be seen again as they were by their original Victorian viewers. This analysis is designed to reveal not only Carroll's signal achievement in the medium, but also a new understanding of Victorian art photography in general.
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Seller name: vana11 (Shipping rates and seller details)
Item number (ASIN): 0300091699
Author: Douglas R. Nickel
ISBN: 0300091699
Item Dimensions: 2.81 x 2.43 (centimeters)
Languages: English x English x English
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 168
Package Dimensions: 80 x 980 x 1130 (hundredths-inches)
Publication Date: August 1, 2002
Publisher: Yale University Press
Binding: Hardcover
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