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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ( 1832 -1898)   better known as “Lewis Carroll,” author of   Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ,  took up the then new art-form of photography in 1856. Over 3000 photographs were taken by Dodgson, but only 1000 have survived due to the passage of time and deliberate destruction. Fifty percent of Dodgson’s surviving work is of young girls, but he also photographed skeletons, dolls, dogs, families, statues and trees. Charles Dodgson quit photography in 1880 because he thought keeping a running studio was too difficult and time-consuming. “You, I suppose, dream photographs,”  ~  Alfred, Lord Tennyson describing Charles Dodgson  Eliza D. Hobson, taken at Croft Rectory, Yorkshire, circa 1860 Albumen : 15.5 x 12.5 cm by  Charles Dodgson  ( aka Lewis Carroll) Irene MacDonald, Flo Rankin, and Mary MacDonald at Elm Lodge , 1863  by  Charles Dodgson  ( aka Lewis Carroll) The Real Alice ( in Wonderland)  Alice ...

Charles Hippolyte Aubry (1811-1877). French photographer. For more than 30 years Aubry worked as an industrial designer. In January 1864 he formed a Parisian company to manufacture plaster casts and photographs of plants and flowers. Although unsuccessful (he filed for bankruptcy in 1865), he continued to sell photographs to drawing schools throughout the 1870s. His albumen prints are often striking close-ups of natural forms taken with a flat perspective and symmetrical arrangement that was inspired by the lithographic plates traditionally used by industrial design students. The failure of Aubry's ideas on the use of photographs in the industrial design process can be attributed to both the French government's reluctance to introduce photography into art schools and the shift in French taste towards more abstract, simplified decorations for manufactured goods. His work is included in the collections of the Bibliothèque Nationale, the La Bibliothèque des Arts Décoratifs and Mu...