I Spy Representations of Childhood

by The Women's Photography Project, IRIS; Fletcher, Jane; Newton, Kate; Fehily, Catherine

• ISBN13: 9781860643842
• ISBN10: 1860643841
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-11-04
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris

Summary

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 color and black and white photographs and newly commissioned writing. It addresses two related issues in the contemporary photography of children: how children photograph themselves and how they are portrayed by modern women photographers.

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

Foreword IRIS-The Women's Photography Project	9	(11)
Introduction Difficult subject: Photographing Children in the Eighties and Nineties	11	(21)
Val Williams
Cath Pearson: Family Album	16	(16)
Silver Stained Staring: Four Photographs	32	(37)
Jane Fletcher
Catherine Fehily: Sequence	36	(14)
Wendy Ewald: If I were orange...	50	(19)
Continuous Excursions: Thoughts on Writing About Children and the Community	69	(43)
Melissa Benn
The Holly Street Public Art Trust: Holly Street Kids/Our Story	74	(14)
Suzanne Greenslade: Under the Bed	88	(14)
Caroline Molloy: Identical Twins	102	(10)
Looking at Babies: Pleasures and Taboos	112	(9)
Patricia Holland
About the Book	121	(5)
Acknowledgments	126