There was a child went forth /
The famous poem by Walt Whitman (1819-1892) not only makes use of the imaginative world of children, but its elegantly sweeping lines have quite a sobering effect on the reader. Cuny Janssen, the 'most remarkable photographer of children in our time' (Freddy Langer), presents in her latest...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cologne :
Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH,
[2017]
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| Summary: | The famous poem by Walt Whitman (1819-1892) not only makes use of the imaginative world of children, but its elegantly sweeping lines have quite a sobering effect on the reader. Cuny Janssen, the 'most remarkable photographer of children in our time' (Freddy Langer), presents in her latest, three-part photo-essay of nature photographs as well as portraits of Amsterdam children. She shows in an inimitable way the intermediate state where naiveté is lost and gives way to knowledge. The natural images of parks and park-like neighborhoods do, surprisingly, not form a true contrast to the fantastic realism of the children's images. Overall, the images in the book seem like one big dream, bushes in colorful autumn colors, stern children's faces while playing in the fields, while lazing and reading on the sofa, equipped with research equipment or at a theater performance at school. As in Janssen's earlier works, her portraits never seem to be conceived with a particular moment in mind, but rather appear like stills, as frozen images from a movie, which will continue instantly. |
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| Item Description: | Title from slipcase. |
| Physical Description: | 3 volumes (unpaged) : color photographs ; 24 x 30 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9783864422126 3864422124 |