I Spy

Representations of Childhood

Catherine Fehily, Jane Fletcher, Kate Newton

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9781860643842
• eBook ISBN: 9781000324679
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Digital Media

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

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Photographs
• FOREWORD IRIS - The Women's Photography Project
• INTRODUCTION: VAL WILLIAMS Difficult subject: Photographing Children in the Eighties and Nineties
• Silver Stained Staring: Four Photographs
• Continuous Excursions: Thoughts on Writing About Children and the Community
• Looking at Babies: Pleasures and Taboos
• About the Book
• About The Contributors
• Acknowledgments