Photography in Children's Literature
Editors
Photography in Children’s Literature is the first international study that examines the wide array of artistic techniques, topics, and genres used within photographic books for children. Covering a time period from the 1870s to the 1980s, the collection offers multifaceted insights into changing perceptions of children and childhood during an era when the world changed in unprecedented ways. More than sixty full-color illustrations demonstrate an impressive variety of genres, from ABC books, concept books, and country portraits to photo reportage and poetry. By discussing photographic books from ten countries and three continents, the collection offers an international scope, providing a glimpse into the production and reception of photography in children’s literature in a range of contexts and cultures. Photographic books for children thus open up new vistas for scholars interested in an interdisciplinary and transnational investigation of children’s literature, text and images, across the centuries.
[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 17] 2023. xv, 306 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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List of figures | pp. vii–xvi
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Introduction: Photography in children’s literatureElina Druker and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer | pp. 1–19
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Part 1. Early photobooks: Between reality and fiction
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Chapter 1. Translating living pictures: Ein Tag aus dem Kinderleben and the tableau vivant tradition in Sweden and FinlandOlle Widhe | pp. 22–42
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Chapter 2. Photographing Chinese childhood: Writing and picturing (1873–1903)Jessica Medhurst | pp. 43–66
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Chapter 3. As ‘objectively’ as possible. On truth and objectivity in photographic early-concept books: The case of The First Picture Book and The Second Picture Book by Mary Steichen and Edward SteichenJörg Meibauer | pp. 67–91
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Part 2. The impact of vanguard movements
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Chapter 4. Soviet socialist su(pe)rrealism for childrenAleksandar Bošković and Ainsley Morse | pp. 94–122
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Chapter 5. From Halley’s Comet to the Scout Kwapiszon: On photomontage, photocollage, and collage in Polish children’s books in the twentieth centuryAnita Wincencjusz-Patyna | pp. 123–143
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Chapter 6. “A successful photograph is worth as much as a story”: Photography’s influence on Bruno Munari’s booksMarnie Campagnaro | pp. 144–167
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Part 3. Female pioneers of photography
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Chapter 7. From the “Children of all Lands Stories” to the “Enfants du monde” collection: Providing a view of the Other in children’s literatureLaurence Le Guen | pp. 170–188
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Chapter 8. In and out of focus: Anna Riwkin’s photojournalism and photographic picturebooksElina Druker | pp. 189–209
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Chapter 9. Politics, art, and pedagogy in Edith Tudor-Hart’s photographs of childrenKimberley Reynolds | pp. 210–229
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Part 4. The politics of childhood
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Chapter 10. Portrait of the child as a socialist: Three photographic picturebooks from the German Democratic RepublicBettina Kümmerling-Meibauer and Jörg Meibauer | pp. 232–253
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Chapter 11. “Days of Sun, Playing, and Dreams”: Innocence, loss, and nostalgia in photography books of children in the kibbutzAyala Amir | pp. 254–273
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Chapter 12. The mirror and multiplicity: Photographic books for the young during the United States’ Black Arts Movement of the 1970sKatharine Capshaw | pp. 274–296
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About the editors and contributors | pp. 297–299
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Subject index | pp. 301–303
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Name index | pp. 305–306
Subjects
Art & Art History
Literature & Literary Studies
Main BIC Subject
DSY: Children's literature studies: general
Main BISAC Subject
LIT009000: LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature