Research Catalog

Title

Lewis Carroll, photographer : the Princeton University Library albums / Roger Taylor, Edward Wakeling ; introduction by Peter C. Bunnell.

Author

Taylor, Roger, 1940-

Publication

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press : Princeton University Library, c2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898
• Wakeling, Edward

Description

xv, 287 p. : ill., ports.; 29 cm.

Summary

Roger Taylor's thorough and sophisticated discussion of Carroll as a photographic artist and as a prominent member of Victorian society reveals the man as never before, illuminating his relationships with the children he photographed in light of the idealism and social conventions of the day. This text, illustrated with exquisite tritone plates, is followed by Edward Wakeling's fully illustrated and thoroughly annotated catalogue of the entire Princeton University Library collection. It features, in addition to a trove of loose prints, four rare albums made by Carroll himself to showcase his work to friends, family, and potential sitters. Reproduced in album order, these images offer new insight into how Carroll thought about his work--and how he wanted it to be seen. Compelling portraits of Alice Liddell and other children are presented alongside those of eminent Victorians such as Alfred Tennyson and William Holman Hunt, as well as evocative landscapes, narrative tableaux, and wonderfully strange studies of anatomical skeletons. The catalogue is followed by a chronological register of every known Carroll photograph.

Alternative Title

Princeton University Library albums

Subjects

• Photography, Artistic
• Photograph collections > New Jersey > Princeton > Catalogs
• Princeton University > Library > Photograph collections > Catalogs
• Parrish, Morris Longstreth, 1867-1944 > Photograph collections > Catalogs
• Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898 > Catalogs

Genre/Form

Photography, Artistic.

Note

• Manuscript inventory of photographs on lining papers.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-279) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Peter C. Bunnell -- "All in the golden afternoon" : the photographs of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson / Roger Taylor -- Chronology / Edward Wakeling -- Catalogue of the Princeton University Library albums / Edward Wakeling -- Register of all known photographs by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson / Edward Wakeling.

ISBN

0691074437

LCCN

^^2001036261

OCLC

• 47136520
• SCSB-12781502

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library