Lewis Carroll was also a keen photographer and produced quality portraits of many prominent persons in his day. He is, however, chiefly remembered for his photos of young girls, which to some indicate a less than savoury interest in young children on Carroll’s part.
Other scholars contend that these images are typical of the Victorian cult of childhood and innocence…
Carroll’s favorite subject was young Alice who also inspired the Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass tales…
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?”
Above: Alice Liddell by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), spring 1860 - wet collodion glass plate negative (NPG, London)