Wednesday, 1 October 2014

'believe the impossible, defy the rules'
gave readers the permission to let their imagination run wild.

he preferred to photograph without their mothers present so they would appear more natural. He also disliked the Victorian practice of dressing children up like small adults, arguing that the natural form of a child was beautiful and did not need to be covered up. He frequently photographed his girls nude, though he made a point of never taking frontal portraits.


He wanted children to find in his stories an outlet for the strict moralizing of the Victorian era. 


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