‘Open your mouth, and shut your eyes’ (Edith Mary Liddell; Ina Liddell; Alice Liddell)

July 1860

Wet collodion glass plate negative

10 in. x 8 in. (254 mm x 203 mm)

Lewis Carroll

Via G00melo5artblog

Alice Liddell was a gifted little model, as she succeeded triumphantly in engaging with the viewer and compelling attention to her role. Those who see nothing in this picture but a provocative, scantly clad nympet, are perhaps imposing their own modern anxieties and preoccupations on the image, (…)

“The Mystery of Lewis Carroll”, Jenny Woolf (2010)

Jenny Woolf quote via my good friend Ravenwitch, photography by Charles Dodgson.