{"product_id":"whippersnappers-how-children-became-photographers-by-annebella-pollen","title":"WHIPPERSNAPPERS: HOW CHILDREN BECAME PHOTOGRAPHERS by Annebella Pollen","description":"\u003cp\u003eDo you remember the first photos you took?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhippersnappers is the first book to tell the history of children as photographers, from school societies in the 1880s, via post-war camera clubs and radical 1970s workshops, to the coming of digital cameras. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnnebella Pollen shows how photography was presented and promoted to children — by camera companies, comics, and teachers — and how the children themselves chose to use it. They include the girls whose trick photographs of the Cottingley Fairies fooled the nation; and the family given cameras and limitless film for a year by a national newspaper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTracing photography’s movement from elite pastime to accessible hobby, including a wealth of photos taken by children — of pets and friends, teachers and toys, fairies and ghosts — it presents a unique child’s-eye view of the world, seen through the camera.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnnebella Pollen is Professor of Visual and Material Culture at University of Brighton, UK, where she researches undervalued archives and untold stories in art and design history. Her previous books include \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMass Photography: Collective Histories of Everyday Life\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Kindred of the Kibbo Kift: Intellectual Barbarians,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNudism in a Cold Climate: The Visual Culture of Naturists in Mid-20th-Century Britai\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003en\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e More Than A Snapshot: A Visual History of Photo Wallets \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e Art Without Frontiers: The Story of the British Council, Visual Arts and a Changing World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Data","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":60075782635904,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/4524\/8002\/files\/whippersnappersfrontcover.jpg?v=1791474838","url":"https:\/\/londonbookarts.org\/en-au\/products\/whippersnappers-how-children-became-photographers-by-annebella-pollen","provider":"London Centre for Book Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}