I spy : representations of childhood / edited by Catherine Fehily, Jane Fletcher & Kate Newton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fletcher, Jane.

Newton, Kate.

Fehily, Catherine, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography of children.

Women photographers.

Physical Description:

125 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : In the U.S. and Canada distributed by St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Summary:

Approaching the photography of children is a difficult and potentially dangerous exercise. I Spy takes up the challenge by means of a unique combination of colour and black and white photographs and newly-commissioned writing from contemporary women photographers and writers. In an original relationship between language and image, I Spy weaves together photographs made by children, potent images of children, poetry, personal history and contemporary analysis. The words do not describe the pictures, the pictures do not illustrate the words -- the two are brought together into a diverse collection of approaches to the represention of childhood. Together, the words and images describe curious and varied, imagined, emotive and actual states of pre-adolescence, while refusing to confirm or conform to the romanticism of the constructed and inherited ideal of childhood and revealing intimate, surprising facets of the visual world of childhood and memory.

Contents:

IRIS

The Women's Photography Project

Difficult subject: Photographing Children in the Eighties and Nineties

Family Album / Cath Pearson 16

Jane Fletcher 32

Silver Stained Staring: Four Photographs

Sequence / Catherine Fehily 36

If I were orange... / Wendy Ewald 50

Melissa Benn 69

Continuous Excursions: Thoughts on Writing About Children and the Community

Holly Street Kids/Our Story / The Holly Street Public Art Trust 74

Under the Bed / Suzanne Greenslade 88

Identical Twins / Caroline Molloy 102

Patricia Holland 112

Looking at Babies: Pleasures and Taboos.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1860643841

186064385X

OCLC:

45610969