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VANITAS PUBLISHING
NEW PUBLICATION OUT DECEMBER 2024
Shadows in Wonderland
Child nudity in the Photographic Works of Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice in Wonderland, has been praised as one of the most talented photographers of children in Victorian England.
His favourite photographic motif was the prepubescent girl. Among the thousands of photographs he produced, five in particular continue to haunt the modern audience: the five survivors of his ample collection of nude studies.
The bachelor’s fascination with child nudity should perhaps be seen in the light of scientific and aesthetic currents at the time. However, the consideration by both Carroll himself – and some of the mothers – that the pictures were not entirely acceptable to society, indicates an ambivalence that haunts these pictures.
Unacceptable today without historical framing, this book explores whether that justification holds under scrutiny.
