Dreaming in Pictures includes contextual material to help contemporary audiences understand how photography was displayed and understood in Carroll's day. In Victorian times, one of the primary vehicles for presenting photographs was the album. Carroll is believed to have assembled approximately 34 of these during his career, using them as portable exhibitions of his photographic talent. To encourage a better understanding of this nineteenth-century practice, a computer program created for this exhibition allows visitors to leaf through "virtual albums" -- electronic facsimiles of Carroll's originals. Using touch-screen monitors, viewers are able to turn the pages of these albums and see over 100 of Carroll's images.
Interactive computer display designed by Perimeter Flux for SF Moma.
Publication: Available from the ICP Museum Store
Dreaming in Pictures: The Photography of Lewis Carroll (2002), co-published by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Yale University Press. This 172-page book features an essay by Douglas R. Nickel, annotated plate descriptions by Carroll expert Edward Wakeling, and 95 duotone illustrations. The plate section includes all 72 works in the exhibition.
Dreaming in Pictures: The Photography
of Lewis Carroll is organized by the San Francisco Museum
of Modern Art. Support for this exhibition has been generously provided
by John Jago Trelawney in memory of his aunt, Sallie Benfield.
The International Center of Photography presentation
is made possible by The Hite Foundation with additional
support from Lloyds TBS.