Also on view at the AGO this summer: Drama and Desire: Artists and the Theatre, opening June 19; Playing with Pictures: The Art of
Victorian Photocollage, opening June 5; and The Storyteller, opening June 9.
In the mid-19th century, a sudden cultural mix of early photography, science à la Darwin and fantasy by way of Lewis Carroll fueled an ironic response from certain educated
Victorian ladies, whose pastimes included scrapbook diaries, parlor games (such as exquisite corpse) and — as on vivid display at the Met —
photocollaged family albums.