Article: The opposite of sex: Sarah Boxer on the photographs of Lewis Carroll. (From the Vault Preview).(Brief Article)

TAKE AWAY THE WHIFF OF PEDOPHILIA IN THE photographs of Lewis Carroll and what's left? Perhaps the idea that Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, aka Carroll, was playing on the boundaries between dreaming and waking and between theatricality and absorption. "Dreaming in Pictures: The Photography of Lewis Carroll," a traveling exhibition of seventy-six vintage prints organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and opening there August 3, will look at Dodgson's photography from an art-historical perspective-- that is, without the wink and smirk.

Enough speculation about whether this shy, stuttering Victorian did or did not propose marriage to Alice Liddell, the ...

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