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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. [...]