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Charles Dodgson - a problematic Pre-Rapaehlite photographer

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Alice in OZ | Australian books | Australian books (presentation) | Christian Yandell's Alice | Alice on Film | Poster 1968 | Photography | Poster 1977 | Whitcombe's Alice | Introduction Charles Dodgson, circa 1863. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), best known as Lewis Carrol , author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the looking glass, and what Alice found there (Carroll 1866 & 1872), was also a pioneer photographer and member of the Pre-Raphaelite group of artists during the mid 1800s (Ovenden 1972, British Council 1982, Bartram 1983). There are a number of books dealing with this aspect of his life and the historical and artistic significance of his work, alongside articles and online videos (Gernsheim 1949 & 1969, Guilliano 1976, Ford 1987, Cohen 1999, Nickel 2002, Taylor & Wakeling 2002, Waggoner 2010, Wakeling 2015, Jeffrey 2017, Waggoner 2020, Lewis Carroll Society of America 2023). However, desp