At the young age of 24, Lewis Carroll took up photography as a aspect of his life, mostly by influence of his uncle, Skeffington Lutwidge. He quickly figured photography out, and he learned so much, so easily and so fast he had thought of making it a living. Theorizing now, if he did make a living out of photography he may have never written Alice in Wonderland and the others. His work mostly consisted of people, and landscape. He did however also take some shots of nude children which I found a bit odd, but it was probably somewhat socially acceptable in that era of history.
Lewis also used his photography to get him into higher social circles, and during the high point in his photographic career he took several portraits and pictures of many famous sitters, who were mostly painters and artists. I wonder if he ever took a picture of the artist drawing a sitter? That would have been a neat shot.
Around 1880, he had completely mastered photography, taking a whopping 3,000 pictures in the period of 24 years. Rather interesting to me that he started photography at the age of 24, and stopped 24 years later. Maybe that was the reason, to keep things even? Who knows. Sadly though, only 1,000 of his photos were salvaged, no thanks to the curse, but sometimes a blessing, known well to us all as time.
His reasons for quitting photography are still unknown.
-David Yarbrough
Nice post!
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