Douglas R. Nickel

I love this book. I found it quite by chance in McIntyre & Moore booksellers in Davis Square (Somerville, MA), a wonderful, wonderful used book store. It contains Carroll's photographs of various children and adults, including a few of the Liddell children and, the most famous of the three, Alice. The photographs are gorgeous, playful and sensitive. The foreward addressing Carroll's life and photography (as opposed to simply his fame as author of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass) is extremely interesting and very objective, particularly when addressing the long-standing concerns about his photographs, and his relationships with the children therein. It's a gorgeous book.… (meer)