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A 5 page paper which examines the famed author of “Alice in Wonderland’s” foray into photography, including the type of photographic process he used, descriptions and possible meanings behind some of his more well-known works, and some of the other artists and photographers he associated with. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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popular novels as Alices Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, and The Hunting of the Snark, he was also a teacher, scientist, mathematician, church deacon, theater aficionado, and accomplished
photographer.1 His passion for photography was ignited around 1856, which began with the purchase of a camera and a set of chemicals (necessary for professional and amateur photographers alike
in the mid-nineteenth century).2 For Carroll, photography represented a perfect complement to his literary artistic expression, for he believed pictures "could be used to develop a novelists style from
the weak-and-watery to the blood-and-thunder."3 He was an educator and author by profession, but regarded photography as more of a leisure activity, photographing whatever and whoever he wanted to
in the way he wanted to. Lewis Carrolls guide was clearly his own fertile creative imagination, and not the rigid Victorian morality of his era.4 In order to gain
a greater understanding into the photographic process Lewis Carroll implemented, it is recommended that the student who is writing about this topic consider the way in which pictures were made
during his lifetime. By approximately 1850, an albumen print process had been developed, in which wet (collodion) negatives were printed onto albumen paper. It was a complicated process
which meant that a penchant for picture taking wasnt the only requirement for a photographer; an extensive knowledge of chemistry was also required.5 After Carroll had mastered the collodion
process of albumen portraiture, he then could proceed to concentrate on the creative aspects of the art, such as capturing the "essence of his subjects."6 He began by photographing
his friends in the artistic, intellectual, and religious establishment, such as Lord Alfred Tennyson, John Ruskin, Rev. Henry George Liddell, and Lord Salisbury.7 Initially, Lewis Carroll focused primarily upon full-body
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