Lewis Carroll's Photography and Modern Childhood

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Review "Diane Waggoner has written the first truly contextual, art historical account of Lewis Carroll's photographs of children."―Morna O’Neill, author of Walter Crane: The Arts and Crafts, Painting, and Politics, 1875–1890"Waggoner explores Lewis Carroll's agency as a photographer in a new and important way. Her examination of Carroll's photographs of children revises longstanding historical accounts of his work and places Carroll's invention of what has become an abiding image of childhood among the cultural transformations of Victorian modernity."―Joanne Lukitsh, Professor of Art History, Massachusetts College of Art and Design Read more About the Author Diane Waggoner is curator of nineteenth-century photographs at the National Gallery of Art. Her books include The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888–1978 (Princeton), The Pre-Raphaelite Lens: British Photography and Painting, 1848–1875, and East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia. Read more

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