7 Photographers That Captured Childhood Like No Other
Oct 30, 2017 · Carroll is considered to be one of the most influential Victorian photographers. His images of children, especially the ones of Alice Liddell and Alexandra Kitchin, captured their innocence in a unique way. Image by Oscar Gustav Rejlander – Desconocido, Dominio público, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=108080. Here you can see ...
Street life of Victorian London in Rare Historical Photographs, …
Jan 25, 2021 · These rare historical photographs were taken from 1873 to 1877 and are part of Street Life in London, a book that was one of the first examples of social documentary photography. The authors, photographer John Thomson and journalist Adolphe Smith, aimed to reveal by the innovative use of photography and essays the conditions of a life of ...
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (1832-98) - The Victorian …
Carroll has long occupied a niche in photographic history books as the best Victorian photographer of children — especially of little girls. But his photographs of adults (some of which are among the important collection of his work in the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television) are equally impressive.
The “Hidden Mothers”: macabre portraits of children in the Victorian …
Nov 20, 2019 · In an era in which infant mortality was dramatically high, post-mortem photography could represent for the tormented parents the only posthumous visual testimony of their own child, often portrayed as if he were asleep.
Hidden mothers in Victorian portraits | The Museum of …
Jan 5, 2012 · These fantastic portraits of children (found via Retronaut) all contain their mother, disguised as chairs or camouflaged under decorative throws behind them. Can you spot all the mothers (and one father)? UPDATE 04/07/12: For more ‘Hidden Mother’ photographs, check out the follow up to this post here.
Victorian Shadows: The Spooky Phenomenon of Hidden Mothers …
In the quiet corners of Victorian-era family albums lie some of the most hauntingly intriguing images from the history of photography. These are the “hidden mothers” photographs, where the desire to capture the perfect image of infancy led to a …
Researching Historical Photographers - Royal Photographic …
Sep 21, 2013 · a growing database of 33,000 UK photographers, 57,000 studio dates and 61,000 addresses based on trade directories, plus an image collection of over 200,000 Victorian photographs (6000 with sitter’s name).
‘Hidden mother’ photos don’t erase moms − rather, they reveal …
May 6, 2024 · But my research has shown that Victorian photographers were documenting children at a moment of widespread desire to focus cultural attention – and therefore camera lenses – on childhood as a ...
Photographs of children on Newcastle’s streets, 1890s
These six photographs are an example of about 300 that we hold at Northumberland Archives, taken by Edgar G. Lee. They show children playing on the streets of Newcastle in the 1890s.
Lewis Carroll's Photography and Modern Childhood
In this lavishly illustrated book, Diane Waggoner offers the first comprehensive account of Carroll as a photographer of modern childhood, exploring how his photographs of children gave visual form to emerging conceptions of childhood in the Victorian age.