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Dodgson in wonderland: a traveling show, currently at New York's ICP, and two new books revive the question of intent behind the photographic work of Lewis Carroll. (Photography).(Biography)

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From: Art in America
Date: 20030601
Author:Rexer, Lyle

We might ask of the author and photographer Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll) what the hookah-smoking caterpillar asked of Alice: "Who are you?" And if a traveling exhibition currently at the International Center of Photography in New York, as well as two new books, bring us no closer to an answer, they certainly present the evidence in all its mysterious and eccentric beauty.

The question of identity preoccupied artists during Dodgson's lifetime (1836-1898), an era that culminated in the triumph of middle-class propriety. The caterpillar's question lurks in ...

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