THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF LEWIS CARROLL, A CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ Compiled by Edward Wakeling Texas University Press, 2015

For people researching the photographs of Lewis Carroll, this new reference book is essential reading. It contains details and images of all the currently known photographs that Dodgson took during his photographic career, from 1856 until 1880. The book has taken over 20 years to compile and is a comprehensive study of Dodgson's photographic opus of some three thousand photographs taken over a 25 year period. The list of the photographs in the book is below.

The book is available from:

In the UK and Europe:

Combined Academic Publishers at www.combinedacademic.co.uk

In the USA:

Texas University Press at www.utpress.utexas.edu

The book contains details of 1,586 photographs with 965 images (all that is known at the present time). These fields are provided:

IMAGE NUMBER
TITLE (GIVEN BY DODGSON)
SUBJECT
DATE
PLACE
DIARY (REFERENCE)
COLLECTION (LOCATION OF THE IMAGE)
ALBUM
INSCRIPTION
DIMENSIONS (IN MM.)
PROVENANCE
DETAILS OF KNOWN PRINTS
REPRODUCED (IN KEY PHOTOGRAPHIC BOOKS)
NOTES

The Foreword is by Elisabeth Mead, Dodgson's great grand-niece
There is an Introduction entitled: "Mystic, Awful Was the Process": Charles L. Dodgson, Victorian Photographer
Other sections include:

The Life of C. L. Dodgson: A Chronology
Surviving Glass-Plate Negatives
Photograph Albums and Handwritten Lists of Contents
Cabinet Card Sets
Nude Studies
C. L. Dodgson and Contemporary Photographers

Charles L. Dodgson's Photographic Register - A Reconstruction

This table gives the photographs with image numbers ranging from 1 to 1500. For the year July 1864 to July 1865 Dodgson used the prefix P for his image numbers. When the image number has a "*" next to it, the number is uncertain.

Photographs

Taken At	Sitter / Subject	Date	Image Number ( * = uncertain)	Age of Sitter