Books by Carol Mavor

Carol Mavor takes in the many shades and meanings of the colour blue, including those of science, Hinduism, Christianity, Judaism, Slavery, gender, sex, ornithology, the literary past, and film.

Drawing attention to the interplay between writing and vision, this book is stuffed with more than 200 images. It is a meditation on the threads that unite mothers and sons and the ways that certain writers and photographers take up those threads and create art that captures an irretrievable past.

Lewis Carroll's photographs of young girls and Julia Margaret Cameron's photographs of Madonnas are two of the subjects in this book, which explores pleasures of all those involved in the creation of the images as well as the images themselves.