(Lewis Carroll) (1832-1898)
odgson was a distinguished Mathematics Professor at Oxford
University and the author of the immortal "Alice in Wonderland" and
"Alice Through the Looking Glass". He was a gifted amateur
photographer with a particularly original and natural approach to
childrens' portraiture. He took the hobby up in 18565 when a friend
explained the wet collodion process to him. Of all the photographers
of the period he was the one who had the closest links with Pre-
Raphaelitism. His friendship embraced all wings of the movement. He
knew Holman Hunt, Woolner, Collins, Hughes, Millais, Rossetti and
Ruskin. But the affinity was not only a matter of social acquaintance.
Like Rossetti, Lewis Carroll was haunted by an Ideal which he was
ever ready to clothe in female form; in Carroll's case the form was
always that of a child. This links him to Arthur Hughes, whose
female models, if not actually children, display the "childlike"
qualities of innocence and fragility.
