Lewis Carroll Photography Page
Lewis Carroll became interested in photography in the infancy of this scientific
art form. He was a man of infinite patience and one who paid attention to the
smallest detail. These qualities were mandatory to be a photographer in the
1850's. The wet collodion process was demanding indeed. It is thought that he
gave up photography when the dry developing process came to the fore, because
it made photography too easy. Anybody could do that. Where was the challenge?
At any rate he is considered one of the best amateur photographers of his time.
I think he was a bit of a photography snob. Carroll certainly would choose UNIX
over Windows (who wouldn't?).
Photography by Carroll
- Photos at HRC University of Texas at Austin
- Photos of Alice Liddell plus many others. Thanks to J. David Sapir at the University of Virginia.
- Xie Kitchin with parasol. This image is over 1 MB.
- Xie Kitchin with violin
- Photographs from the Princeton University collection .
This is a great collection of Dodgson's photographs. Keep clicking on the small images until you get to the large image.
- Photos of Alice Liddell at the National Portrait Gallery
- Not any photo a Russian site
- Live Journal
- Review of Reflections in a Looking-Glass
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Four photos at photo central
- Aunts playing chess
- Crown Prince Frederick
- Queen Eleanor and Fair Rosamund
- Exhibit at National Museum of Photography, Film, and Television.
- Photos from the National Museum of Photography, Film, and Television.
- An article on Carroll's photography by Sadi Ranson-Polizzoti
Aahh, you can almost smell the chemicals, can't you?
Photographs of Carroll
Related Photography
- Conservation of one of Carroll's Photo Albums
- Article on a Victorian photography exhibition
- A brief word on Carroll as photographer.
- An article by Colin Ford
- An article on early photomontage
- Carroll's wet collodion photographic outfit
- Photo of photographic equipment - Carroll would have travelled with all of this.
- An article in the NY Times about Carroll's photography
- Polixeni Papapetrou's photos of her daughter after Carroll
- Polixeni Papapetrou exhibition
- Polixeni Papapetrou slide show
- Three Oxford photographs
- An article on Victorian photography London Independent 4/27/00
- Camerawocky For camera geeks only. Don't say I didn't warn you.
- A cute article on the sale of Carroll's photographs
- An essay by Edward Wakeling