| 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: | UK |
English mathematician, author of "Alice in Wonderland" and a number of classics of children‘s literature, and photographer.
Stereographs project
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*[Lewis Carroll, pseud. of Charles Lutdwidge Dodson] Mathematician, author, amateur photog., great majority of work done in SI format. Biogs. of him don't specifically mention stereoviews, but 2 have been reported, flower studies, nicely tinted, with manuscript annotation on reverse. Took up photog. 56, gave it up in 80 due to scandal about posing young girls in nude. B. 32, D. 98. SEE LEWIS CARROLL, PHOTOGRAPHER, by Helmut Gernsheim.
T.K. Treadwell & William C. Darrah (Compiled by), Wolfgang, Sell (Updated by), 11/28/2003, Photographers of the World (Non-USA), (National Stereoscopic Association) |
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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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