Lewis Carroll's Photography and Modern Childhood

"""The best book yet written on Dodgson’s photography. Measured in tone and thickly referenced, it is also refreshingly open to seeing both sides of an argument. In this sense it reads as much like a book written by Carroll as one about him.""---Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, V&A Magazine ""Diane Waggoner’s comprehensive study, lavishly illustrated with excellent reproductions of Carroll’s albumen prints, alongside letters and sketches, explores how his paintings and photographs helped shape emerging conceptions of childhood in the Victorian age. . . . The book will appeal not just to Carroll aficionados but to anyone with an interest in the development of photography in the 19th century.""---Jonathan Harwood, Black & White Photography Magazine ""Diane Waggoner’s comprehensive study, lavishly illustrated with excellent reproductions of Carroll’s albumen prints, alongside letters and sketches, explores how his paintings and photographs helped shape emerging conceptions of childhood in the Victorian age.""---Jonathan Harwood, Black & White Photography Magazine ""Waggoner illuminates the complexity of her subject, bringing to it both fresh context and academic rigor. . . . This is a book to read carefully, as well as to look at, and it will be a vital addition to Carroll scholarship. . . . The result is a descriptive and measured account of the making of photographs whose subjects are familiar to any Carroll scholar, as well as a number that are less well known—which ultimately makes the book something of a corrective in terms of its content and approach. . . . Waggoner’s book is strikingly beautiful but also . . . contributes so significantly to the history of childhood itself. ""---Jennifer Green-Lewis, H-Net Reviews ""The most detailed critical analysis of Dodgson’s photographs to date.""---Jan Susina, Victorian Studies"