Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
photographer
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), who wrote under the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician and amateur photographer. Born on 27 January 1832 at All Saints' Vicarage in Daresbury, Cheshire, he took up photography in 1856, influenced first by his uncle Skeffington Lutwidge and later by his Oxford friend Reginald Southey. He photographed for about twenty-four years and abruptly ceased in 1880. He is regarded as one of the most important Victorian photographers. Historian Helmut Gernsheim rediscovered his photographic work in 1949 and placed Carroll alongside 19th-century figures such as Hill and Adamson and Julia Margaret Cameron. The Dutch 1979 volume Lewis Carroll: victoriaans fotograaf presents a selection of his photographs, described as a body of roughly seven hundred surviving images. Dodgson died on 14 January 1898 at his sisters' home, The Chestnuts, in Guildford, Surrey.[1,2,3]
- Victorian photography
- portraiture of children
- photography of women and girls
- photographic rediscovery
Works about Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
- 1979 Lewis Carroll victoriaans fotograaf Selection of Carroll's photographs; the book in question.
- Lewis Carroll, Photographer English-language book on Carroll's photography; publication year not verified.