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Photography in Children's Literature
Edited by Elina Druker and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition 17] 2023
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Introduction

Photography in children’s literature

Article outline
  • Previous research on photography and children’s literature
  • Images of childhood
  • Photobooks and politics
  • Between objectivity and manipulation
  • Modernism and vanguard trends in photobooks for children
  • The role of women photographers
  • Transnational and transmedial aspects
  • Overview of the volume
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 19 September 2023
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