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Renowned for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) was also one of the most important amateur photographers of the Victorian era and the period's finest photographer of children. From 1856 to 1880, Carroll took around three thousand pictures, the majority of which were portraits of family, friends, and colleagues. He also sought out and photographed celebrities of the day, including Alfred Tennyson, Samuel Wilberforce, Michael Faraday, William Holman Hunt, Henry Taylor, George MacDonald, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Ellen Terry, John Everett Millais, Charlotte Yonge, and Prince Leopold. Carroll's remaining output includes images of landscapes and architecture, works of art, and skeletons; assisted self-portraits; and other miscellaneous pictures. Today, his photographs are highly prized and fetch enormous prices at auction.This catalogue raisonne presents images of the nearly one thousand surviving photographs of Lewis Carroll-including many from… Read More

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As New with No dust jacket in Slipcase.1982. Second Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. 0893811025 . Publisher's full blue cloth, silver lettering on spine and cover. Profusely illustrated with B&W photographs by Minor White. Minor Martin White (1908-1976) was an American photographer, theoretician, critic and educator. He combined an intense interest in how people viewed and understood photographs with a personal vision that was guided by a variety of spiritual and intellectual philosophies. Starting in Oregon in 1937 and continuing until he died in 1976, White made thousands of black-and-white and color photographs of landscapes, people and abstract subject matter, created with both technical mastery and a strong visual sense of light and shadow. He taught many classes, workshops and retreats on photography at the California School of Fine Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, other schools, and in his own home. He lived much of his life as a closeted gay… Read More

As new with slipcase. Prestel, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. As New Condition/As New. Fine 1st edition very large, imposing Prestel hardback, unclipped DJ with heavy outer slipcase. Bump and surface 1 inch wide tear to left side of base of slipcase, small nick to top of DJ spine else Fine and bright, unmarked volume.