| America's Children: Picturing Childhood from Early America to the Present Contributor(s): Mac Austin, Hilary (Editor), Thompson, Kathleen (Editor) |
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ISBN: 039305182X ISBN-13: 9780393051827 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Hardcover Published: December 2002 Annotation: Illuminating a vital but all-too-often neglected part of the nation's past, this is the first comprehensive visual history of its kind. The authors have assembled a remarkable collection of images from museums and archives from all over the country. Over 300 duotone photographs, journal entries, letters, and diaries. |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Photography | Photoessays & Documentaries - Photography | Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General - Social Science | Children's Studies |
| Dewey: 305.230 |
| LCCN: 2002075321 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 9.22" W x 12.5" L (3.74 lbs) 320 pages |
| Features: Price on Product |
| Review Citations: Booklist 10/01/2002 pg. 283 Publishers Weekly 11/11/2002 pg. 56 Library Journal 05/15/2003 pg. 84 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Illuminating a vital but all too often neglected part of our nation's past, America's Children is a comprehensive print documentary of children in the United States, the first visual history of its kind. Kathleen Thompson and Hilary Mac Austin explore childhood over four centuries of American life, portraying the children of our past and present through images from museums and archives all over the country as well as from their own extensive collection. Composed of more than 300 duotone images, America's Children includes drawings, engravings, Native American ledger paintings, and sketches by early explorers that date as far back as the 1500s. Almost one-third of these images have never been published before. Hometown newspaper and studio photographers such as Charles Teenie Harris, Albert R. Stone, and Fred Hultstrand present a nostalgic but unsentimental view of America's small towns. Harrowing photographs by Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine show the exploitation of children in mines and sweatshops. The groundbreaking documentary photographs of the FSA photographers reveal a child's life during the hardships of the Great Depression. Betty Lane, Jeffry Scott, Cathie Lyons, Nestor Hernandez, and other contemporary photographers glimpse a group of girls at a pro-choice demonstration, an illegal immigrant huddled in his father's arms before being sent back across the border, a child hunkered in absorbed interest at the edge of a vast AIDS memorial quilt, a boy limboing under a crime-scene tape. Alongside these images, the authors have included detailed captions as well as excerpts from interviews, letters, and diaries that allow the nation's children, past and present, to be heard in their own words. Following in the path of Thompson and Austin's previous books--the best-selling The Face of Our Past and Children of the Depression--America's Children is arranged in eight sections, from Children and Learning and Children and Their Families on the Move to Children at Work and Children at Play, each of which includes a brief introduction detailing the history of children from a different perspective, taking us from a sixteenth-century Algonquian village to a nineteenth-century southern plantation, and from the battlefields of the Civil War to the migrant camps of the Depression and beyond. Revealing the central--and quite adult--role that children have played and continue to play in American society, America's Children is not only a brilliantly revisionist work of historical significance but also a stunning volume that will be treasured by families for years to come. |
Contributor Bio(s): Mac Austin, Hilary: - Hilary Mac Austin is a coeditor of The Face of Our Past: Images of Black Women from Colonial America to the Present and Children of the Depression. Along with Kathleen Thompson, they are founding members of the organization OneHistory, which is dedicated to making heard the many voices of American history.Thompson, Kathleen: - Kathleen Thompson is a coeditor of The Face of Our Past: Images of Black Women from Colonial America to the Present and Children of the Depression. Along with Hilary Mac Austin, they are founding members of the organization OneHistory, which is dedicated to making heard the many voices of American history. |
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