1st Edition

I Spy Representations of Childhood

Edited By Catherine Fehily, Jane Fletcher, Kate Newton Copyright 2000
    128 Pages
    by Routledge

    128 Pages
    by Routledge

    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

    TEXTS PHOTOGRAPHS FOREWORD IRIS- The Women's Photography Project INTRODUCTION: VAL WILLIAMS; Difficult subject: Photographing Children in the Eighties and Nineties CATH PEARSON: Family Album JANE FLETCHER Silver Stained Staring: Four Photographs CATHERINE FEHILY: Sequence WENDY EWALD: If I were orange...MELISSA BENN Continuous Excursions: Thoughts on Writing About Children and the Community THE HOLLY STREET PUBLIC ART TRUST: Holly Street Kids Our Story SUZANNE GREENSLADE: Under the Bed CAROLINE MOLLOY: Identical Twins PATRICIA HOLLAND Looking at Babies: Pleasures and Taboos; About the Book

    Biography

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