Table of contents
List of figures
vii
Introduction: Photography in children’s literature
1
Part 1.Early photobooks
Between reality and fiction
21
Chapter 1.Translating living pictures: Ein Tag aus dem Kinderleben
and the tableau vivant tradition in Sweden and Finland
22
Chapter 2.Photographing Chinese childhood: Writing and picturing (1873–1903)
43
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 Steichen
67
Part 2.The impact of vanguard movements
93
Chapter 4.Soviet socialist su(pe)rrealism for children
94
Chapter 5.From Halley’s Comet to the Scout Kwapiszon: On photomontage, photocollage, and collage in Polish children’s books in the twentieth century
123
Chapter 6.“A successful photograph is worth as much as a story”: Photography’s influence on Bruno Munari’s books
144
Part 3.Female pioneers of photography
169
Chapter 7.From the “Children of all Lands Stories” to the “Enfants du monde” collection: Providing a view of the Other in children’s literature
170
Chapter 8.In and out of focus: Anna Riwkin’s photojournalism and photographic picturebooks
189
Chapter 9.Politics, art, and pedagogy in Edith Tudor-Hart’s photographs of children
210
Part 4.The politics of childhood
231
Chapter 10.Portrait of the child as a socialist: Three photographic picturebooks from the German Democratic Republic
232
Chapter 11.“Days of Sun, Playing and Dreams”: Innocence, loss, and nostalgia in photography books of children in the kibbutz
254
Chapter 12.The mirror and multiplicity: Photographic books for the young during the United States’ Black Arts movement of the 1970s
274
About the editors and contributors
297
Subject index
301
Name index
305