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Including a recovered photograph of Oscar Wilde.
In a recent article I featured the university photographs of Oscar Wilde taken by Hills and Saunders.
Now it is the turn of another Oxford photographer, J. Guggenheim, whose photographs include one which, I believe, has never before appeared online.
The full photograph is shown below.
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Wilde’s college exploits, his aesthetic entry into London society, the self-publicity of his American tour, and his pursuit of fame have all been well documented; and the story often distills to the crucial moment of his fall from grace, a short period in 1895 when fame turned to infamy.
But there is a more enduring, more subtle, and underlying theme that began with Wilde’s desire for the opposite: a journey through his art and life towards an imperative for anonymity.
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