Information and discussion on all aspects of British photographic history
Time: June 12, 2012 to July 29, 2012
Location: La Chambre
Street: 4 place d'Austerlitz
City/Town: 67000 Strasbourg
Website or Map: http://www.la-chambre.org/
Phone: 03 88 36 65 38
Event Type: exhibition
Organized By: La Chambre
Latest Activity: Jun 12, 2012
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Who does not know Charles Lutwidge Dodgson aka Lewis Carroll, renowned author of The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, published their books since the nineteenth century and up today continue to delight their readers.
But the author of Alice was also for twenty five years - from 1855 to 1880 - a talented photographer, primarily a portraitist, whose favorite subject was the world of childhood.
Middle the circle of artists and writers that revolve around the Pre-Raphaelites, he made many portraits of his friends and their children, including the young Alice Liddell who inspired Lewis Carroll had for his emblematic character.
In his photographic work, found Carroll's fascination for the world of childhood where he was one of the brightest and most frequent portrait. Surely this last conversation with his young models of relationships, deploying treasures of cunning and patience to make them hold up time of installation, which, by its own admission, never lasted less than forty seconds.
But studied attitudes, costumes and the presence of children in some of these photographs are also an echo of Carroll's passion for theater as for "Miniature Paintings", performed by young children, and very popular Victorian public.
More than just put in pictures of his literary universe, his photographs are a true complement.
Victoria and Albert Museum's photography collection
National Science and Media Museum
RPS Journal 1853-2012 online and searchable
Photographic History Research Centre, Leicester
Birkbeck History and Theory of Photography Research Centre
William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné
British Photography. The Hyman Collection
The Press Photo History Project Mapping the photo agencies and photographers of Fleet Street and the UK
The correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot
Historic England Archive
UAL Photography and Photography and the Archive Research Centre
Royal Photographic Society's Historical Group
www.londonstereo.com London Stereoscopic Company / T. R. Williams
www.earlyphotography.co.uk British camera makers and companies
Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock.
National Portrait Gallery, London
http://www.freewebs.com/jb3d/
Alfred Seaman and the Photographic Convention
Frederick Scott Archer
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