Go Ask Alice.(Brief Article)

Reason | July 1, 2001| | Copyright

Here's Alice through a different looking glass: Lewis Carroll's lens. This famous pose of Alice Liddell--auctioned off by her descendants in June--was taken by Carroll in 1858; seven years later he would publish the tale he'd made up to amuse the girl, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Victorian photos are often opaque today; many were frankly narrative and were intended to evoke pathos. Carroll dressed Alice as a "picturesque" beggar in imitation of the work of Oscar Rejlander, an early professional photographer who often posed his models as urchins. Rejlander's ...

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