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• W208431453 abstract "Ever since it became apparent that baby boomers had decided to reproduce, smart money has gone young: Disney's profit margins are off the charts, children's computer programs and CD-ROMs top best-seller lists, and Sega and Nintendo continue to expand exponentially. It's no secret that everyone from Michael Jackson to Apple computer knows that capturing the youth market is important to long-term success - once a fan, always a fan. But markets and profit margins are only part of the equation; the other half is harder to quantify, having to do with the unique bond between parent and child and how adults imagine a pleasurable and beneficial upbringing for their children. In view of this equation and the relative literacy of baby boomers, it's not surprising that children's books have been experiencing their own little boom. What is surprising - given the conservative drift of American politics and the cynical sex-and-violence salesmanship of techno and TV culture -is that children's books remain a profitable (if just barely) bastion of liberal humanism. Books for young readers regularly espouse values, such as the care and assistance of those less fortunate, racial and gender equality and nonviolence. Compared to movies and video games, children's books are intended to influence children in a more serious way, as if their young readers would actually grow up to emulate what they read and saw in the pages of their books. Books don't always provide kids with easy answers to life's problems, but the best make tough solutions understandable through the most improbable fictions and fantastic illustrations. For young readers, lessons always seem secondary to the visceral and imaginary pleasures of books. Although it didn't start that way, lessons have become central to the dramatic increase in photo books for young readers. The first wave of these photo books attempted to do what children's books had always done: to present fantastic illustrations for funny or fabulous narratives. Cindy Sherman's Fitcher's Bird (1992), William Wegman's Cinderella (1993) and Sarah Moon's Little Red Riding Hood (1983) are traditional children's books with photo illustrations instead of drawn or painted illustrations. Recently, though, the trend in photo books has shifted away from illustrated fictions and toward nonfiction treatments - something photography can do more readily than drawing or painting. Employing photographs in much the same way they are used in the general culture (as factual illustration), the new nonfiction and historical photo books steer fantasy toward the realm of real people and events. Once they get to this subject, the lessons begin: on rising above adversity, working hard, friendship, but most of all, on photography. Unlike technical how-to books, these books are viewing how- tos, working backward from finished pictures to lessons in photographic principles, politics and meaning. The most popular new type of photo book is the artist biography. Aside from providing built-in role models for young people, biographies give authors the opportunity to discuss the way specific photographs were made. Jacques-Henry Lartigue: Boy with a Camera (1994) by John Cech is actually less a biography than an extended meditation on what it's like to make photographs from a child's perspective. To Cech, that means play. Whether it's a self-portrait made by floating a camera on a piece of wood in the bathtub, or an action shot of Lartigue's brother Zissou flying a glider, Cech describes Lartigue's photography as extensions of his ability to play with both his camera and his family and friends. It's a wonderful way to think about photography, and Lartigue's funny and marvelous pictures make it convincing. Cech's concentration on fun and games means that history enters the book mostly as antiquated technology (Lartigue had to take the cork off the lens and count to three) and nostalgia (No one, no matter how old, seemed to have forgotten how to play). …" @default.
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