When They Were Young

A Photographic Retrospective of Childhood from the Library of Congress

25 November 2008

Robert Coles (Author)

Description

For the first time, the Library of Congress presents a collection of touching and timeless photographs of children from its extraordinary photographic archive.

Married with heartfelt prose by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Coles and a foreword by Librarian of Congress James H. Billington, When They Were Young reveals that the experience of childhood is connected across time through a broad presentation of eloquent images.

Spanning the history of photography from the daguerreotype to documentary, each tritone image in this volume is illustrated on a full page. Works by internationally renowned photographers such as Edward Curtis and Dorothea Lange are included. The companion exhibition, When They Were Young: A Photographic Retrospective of Childhood opened in Fall 2002 in the Library's Jefferson Building. The publication and exhibition will be featured at the Library's annual National Book Festival. 78 full-page tritone photographs.

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Hardback

9780967007656

279 x 302 mm • pages

£31.99

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