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LEWIS CARROLL'S PHOTOGRAPHS ARE ADVENTURES IN A VISUAL WONDERLAND FOCUSING ON CHILDREN, HE CREATED A WORLD OF FANTASY, REVERIE

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20030810
Author:Mark Feeney, Globe Staff

NEW YORK - The most famous photographer in history is Charles Dodgson (1832-1898). Why, then, unless you are a specialist in Victoriana, have you never heard of him? It's because Dodgson is so much better known as "Lewis Carroll," the author of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass."

The fame of those books far surpasses that of his photographs. Yet both share certain key attributes. For starters, each was a sideline. By profession, Carroll was an Oxford don: an ordained minister who taught mathematics.

Also, both his photographs and the Alice books centered on ...

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