I Spy: Representations of Childhood - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 186064385X ISBN 13: 9781860643859

Publisher: Routledge, 2000

Synopsis

Attempting to address the photography of children in the late 1990s is a difficult and potentially dangerous exercise. _I Spy_ takes up the challenge by means of a unique combination of new colour and black and white photographs and newly commissioned writing. A book to savour, it addresses two related issues in the contemporary photography of children: how children photograph themselves and how they are portrayed by modern women photographers. It includes, for example, children's photographs of their homes, families and environment, a body of work on twins, a mother's photographs of her daughter and powerful essays expressing poetic, personal and critical approaches. Together, images and words describe intimate, surprising facets of the visual world of childhood. The contributors are: Melissa Benn, Linda Bullock, Wendy Ewald, Catherine Fahily, Jane Fletcher, Suzanne Greenslade, Patricia Holland, Holly Street Public Art Trust, Caroline Molloy, Kate Newton, Cath Pearson

About this title

Synopsis:

An exploration of the relation between photography and childhood, with photographs ranging from snap-shots taken by children in their communities to studio-portraits and a body of work on twins, and photographers and writers explore individually and together a provocative and surprising visual world.

About the Author:

IRIS The Women's Photography Project The Women's Photography Project is based at Staffordshire University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 186064385X
• ISBN 13: 9781860643859
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128
• Editor: Fehily Catherine, Fletcher Jane, Newton Kate