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Conclusion
Through photography Carroll not only suspended a moment in time, he pinned it in place and enforced the moment’s permanence with the addition of several artistic mediums, such as text and drawings. Although his photographs pause a particular instant, the formal qualities of the images, the subjects and shapes, remain lively. Whether Alice Liddell appears [...]
Chapter 3
Wonderland: Illustrated and Defined
On July 4, 1860, Carroll and a male friend accompanied Edith, Lorina, and Alice Liddell on a boat trip. At the sisters’ insistence, Carroll told the story of a young heroine, named Alice, who follows a white rabbit with pink eyes down a rabbit hole while her elder sister reads [...]
Chapter 2
Down the Rabbit Hole: Materiality, Artifice, and Technology
Although the Liddell sisters were Lewis Carroll’s most famous muses, they were not the only girls he photographed during the summer of 1857. In late August, less than two months after he created their portraits, Carroll composed an image of Agnes Weld that marks a significant departure [...]
Chapter 1
Before the Rabbit Hole: Early Experimentations in Photography
In the summer of 1857, Lewis Carroll photographed two girls: Lorina and Alice Liddell (Figure 1). Taken the same day, the two portraits depict a five year old and an eight year old, seated facing the photographer at a wooden chair with their hands clasped at [...]
Introduction
Thirteen years after Roger Fry’s exhibition “Manet and the Post-Impressionists” at the Grafton House, Virginia Woolf pronounced, “On or about December 1910, human character changed. I am not saying that one went out, as one might into a garden, and there saw a rose had flowered, or that a hen had laid an egg. [...]

Los Angeles: The (Mutated) Garden City of Today
Nineteenth-century British modernity is characterized by an astounding leap in scientific discoveries, new technologies, mass production and imperial expansion.[1] The invention of modern mediums—like photography, railways, electricity, steel and telegraphy—inspired new ways for British society to envision and reconfigure urban spaces and urban life. How could society live [...]

Scientific design is linked to the stars far more directly than to the earth. Star-gazing? Admittedly. But it is essential to accentuate the real source of energy and change in contrast to the emphasis that has always been placed on keeping man ‘down to earth.’
-R. Buckminster Fuller, Nine Chains to the Moon (1938), 67

Union Station: Providing the Architecture for the New Arcadia in Southern California
The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the gratings of the windows, the banisters of the steps, the antennae of the lightning rods, the poles of the [...]

I know that I am not a category, a hybrid specialization, I am not a thing- a noun. I seem to be a verb- an evolutionary process, an integral fuction of the universe, and so are you.
-R. Buckminster Fuller