Though he’s known now primarily as the author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, in his lifetime Lewis Carroll was interested at least as much in photography as in writing. This book offers a close look at Carroll’s engagement with the medium, both as a creator and a collector of photographs. Lindsay Smith takes readers to the glass studio above Carroll’s college rooms at Oxford, where he created many of his striking portraits, and she also follows him into the field—on excursions to the theater in London, to the seaside at Eastbourne, and even to Russia. Smith also details Carroll’s enthusiastic work as a collector, in which role he arranged portrait sittings for photographers whose work he admired. Beautifully illustrated with a generous selection of Carroll’s work and that of other photographers of the period, this book gives fans of Carroll’s writing a new way to understand his creative genius.

ルイス・キャロルという不世出の天才を語る時、我々は言葉の魔術に目を奪われがちです。しかしリンゼイ・スミスが描き出すのは、カメラを手に光と影を操る「視覚の表現者」としての実像。その視座は、一瞬の静止画に物語を封じ込める、静かな狂気と情熱に満ちています。 本書は、彼の執筆活動と写真家としての魂がいかに密接に響き合っているかを解き明かします。現実を再構築し、美のエッセンスを掬い取る探求心。創造的本質に触れるとき、読者はあの名作の奥底に流れる、新たな視覚的深淵を目撃することになるでしょう。