Priceless Children includes vintage photographs of working class and middle-class children at the turn of the century. Lewis Hine's pioneering documentation of immigration and child labor are compared and contrasted with the Pictorialist work by six of his contemporaries: F. Holland Day, Gertrude Käsebier, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, and Clarence White. Hine's working-class children, portrayed for reform-minded audiences as victims of harshly inhumane conditions, often display a freedom, exuberance, sociability, and autonomy that their more privileged and closely guarded peers might well have envied. Conversely, the bourgeois interior, in the iconography of fine-art photography, did not always or unambiguously register as a safe haven in a heartless world. This book suggests that establishing the value of the "priceless child," part of whose history can be seen in photographs, is an always-unfinished project.

Priceless Children: American Photographs 1890-1925 : Child Labor and the Pictorialist Ideal

Arts & Photography

Fanning, Patricia J.

Beck, Tom

Curtis, Verna Posever

Dimock, George

Photography & Video

Weatherspoon Art Museum

<p>Presents a collection of photographs by the photojournalist, taken between 1933 and 1956.</p>

David Seymour

Individual Artists

Phaidon Press

At age 39 I weighed 300 + lbs., was a chain smoker, and newly diagnosed with diabetes. My life was headed for certain disaster. This is the story of my awakening and the events that led to my walk across America 18 years later at age 57.

My Walk Across America: Confronting the Diabetes Challenge

Gorham Printing

<p>Have you ever wondered what life's really like beyond our borders? Whether for work, love, adventure, or even to escape, millions of Brits packed their bags, grabbed their passports, and found out for themselves. Goodbye Britain is a collection of their real-life stories in their own words. Discover fascinating insights from British people living across the world; from chasing their dreams, following their hearts, dealing with their disappointments, and even the few who returned to where it all began.</p>

Goodbye Britain: Talking to the Brits Who Packed Their Bags and Left

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Keep Your Composure

Jaromir Stephany (1930–2010) was one of the greatest exponents of cliché verre photography--i..e, painting or drawing on a transparent surface and printing the image on a light-sensitive paper--making serial depictions of imaginary cosmoses, as well as photographs of natural abstractions and, later in his career, computer-aided clichés verres. This is his first monograph.

Jaromir Stephany: Music of the Mind

Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery

In-house SEO Success

Computers & Technology

Schnieders, Simon

Álvarez, Paula

Glanville, Simon

Ojiaku, Rejoice

Steven, Carly

van Vessum, Steven

Barenholtz, Limor

Blauer, Itamar

Schwarz, Dominik

Web Development & Design

Blue Array Ltd

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