Reflections in a Looking Glass: A Centennial Celebration of Lewis Carroll, Photographer

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Reflections in a Looking Glass: A Centennial Celebration of Lewis Carroll, Photographer Details

From Library Journal Published to accompany a traveling exhibition on the centenary of Lewis Carroll's death, this book is the most comprehensive ever produced on this subject, going far beyond Helmut Gernsheim's early work, Lewis Carrol, Photographer (1949), and several other books. Though Carroll was an amateur, he is widely considered the preeminent 19th-century photographer of children and would be considered so if he had not written a single children's book. This study documents his child-tableaux and also includes many portraits of the parents and other adults in his social circle. Alice Liddell and many other children of his colleagues and friends are represented here in exquisite reproductions that leave no question about Carroll's photographic talents. Several portraits were elaborately hand-colored or set into painted backgrounds by artists at Carroll's request. Highly recommended for history of photography, humanities, 19th-century concentrations, and children's literature collections.?Kathleen Collins, Bank of America Archives, San FranciscoCopyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. Read more Review [Cohen] wrote the splendid Lewis Carroll: A Biography and edited a two-volume collection of Carroll's letters. Now he has given us a strikingly beautiful volume about Carroll as a skilled photographer. -- The Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review, Martin Gardner Read more About the Author Morton N. Cohen, Professor Emeritus of the City University of New York, edited the two-volume The Letters of Lewis Carroll and has written or edited seven other books on Carroll, including Lewis Carroll: A Biography (Knopf, 1995). Read more

Reviews

There are several books of the photographs of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll). This book is the best. The book is printed on heavy paper with superb reproductions of his photographic work. Even the dust cover is printed on heavy paper.The book concentrates (as it should) on his photographs of children. It also includes his photographs of famous people and of his family.The book is well worth its price. I have only one criticism: at 144 pages, the book is too short.

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