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Article: Dodgson in wonderland: a traveling show, currently at New York's ICP, and two new books revive the question of intent behind the photographic work of Lewis Carroll. (Photography).(Biography)
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- Art in America
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- June 1, 2003
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We might ask of the author and photographer Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll) what the hookah-smoking caterpillar asked of Alice: "Who are you?" And if a traveling exhibition currently at the International Center of Photography in New York, as well as two new books, bring us no closer to an answer, they certainly present the evidence in all its mysterious and eccentric beauty.
The question of identity preoccupied artists during Dodgson's lifetime (1836-1898), an era that culminated in the triumph of middle-class propriety. The caterpillar's question lurks in Pip's obscure parentage in Great Expectations, in Daniel Deronda's hidden Jewishness in the ...
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... ... year of the death of Charles Dodgson (otherwise known as Lewis Carroll), questions are once again ... and poignant meeting between Dodgson and the grown-up Alice in ... breaks the spell to force Dodgson to face the painful fact of ...
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