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| #601070 in eBooks | 2011-01-01 | 2011-01-01 | File type: PDF||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| NO PHOTOGRAPHS is an intolerable deficiency|By Daniel P. Smith|I really enjoyed this book. If you are interested in the subject matter, I think you will like it, too. At 128 pages it is a little slim: take that into account. I particularly enjoyed Winchester's evocative descriptions of what it really meant to be a photographer using the wet collodion process, and he helped me t|From Publishers Weekly|Winchester (The Professor and the Madman) explores the story behind Alice in Wonderland by focusing on an 1858 portrait taken by the eccentric Charles Dodgson-best known by his pen-name, Lewis Carroll. The subject of the photo is six-year-
On a summer's day in 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church College in Oxford, Charles Dodgson, a lecturer in mathematics, photographed six-year-old Alice Liddell, the daughter of the college dean, with a Thomas Ottewill Registered Double Folding camera, recently purchased in London.
Simon Winchester deftly uses the resulting image--as unsettling as it is famous, and the subject of bottomless speculation--as the vehicle for a brief excursion behind the lens, a...
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