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Before becoming a celebrated author of children's books under the pen name Lewis Carroll, Oxford mathematics lecturer Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was known as a sophisticated and prolific photographer. This exhibition is the first to present an art-historical analysis of Dodgson's photography - beautiful and unusual works crafted with a distinctly Victorian sensibility and visual vocabulary.The 76 photographs drawn together for Dreaming in Pictures: The Photography of Lewis Carroll represent Dodgson's images of people, from allegorical and historical tableaux to enigmatic, ethereal portraits of children.

Dreaming in Pictures
The Photography of Lewis Carroll