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Via Ordinary findsTonight’s very brief spotlight falls on Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll: Jan. 27, 1832 - 1898…
“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” — L.C.
Photo above: Unknown photographer, circa 1856-1860 - albumen carte-de-visite (NPG, London)
Via Ordinary findsLewis Carroll was also a keen photographer and produced quality portraits of many prominent persons in his day. He is, however, chiefly remembered for his photos of young girls, which to some indicate a less than savoury interest in young children on Carroll’s part.
Other scholars contend that these images are typical of the Victorian cult of childhood and innocence…
Carroll’s favorite subject was young Alice who also inspired the Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass tales…
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?”
Above: Alice Liddell by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), spring 1860 - wet collodion glass plate negative (NPG, London)
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Mannequins, Berlin 1932
by Marianne Breslauer [also]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lf2gzcKuyf1qztk1wo1_1280.jpg)
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Via Ordinary findsDanish author Karen Blixen (known often in the English-speaking world by her pseudonym Isak Dinesen; she also published as Pierre Andrezel) was born April 17, 1885. The Baroness passed away in 1962…
Iconic photo of Blixen by Rie Nissen, 1935 (Royal Danish Library)
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