Explore the historical evolution and visual significance of this theme through the extensive archives of Luminous-Lint. By connecting rare images, scholarly research, and diverse photographic techniques, we provide a comprehensive framework for understanding how these visual narratives have shaped the medium across the 19th and 20th centuries. Dive into our networked database of over 130,000 images to discover the pivotal trends, individual masterpieces, and deep historical connections that define this field.
| Information requests |
| 1 | Improving content on life stages |
| Examples |
| 2 | Children in nineteenth century photography |
| 3 | Children in twentieth century photography |
| Dressing babies and young boys |
| 4 | Boys wearing dresses before they were breeched |
| Involvement of children with photography |
| 5 | The involvement of children and photography |
| 6 | The "helping hand", "hidden mother" and "hidden father" portraits |
| 7 | Pictorialism and the innocence of children |
| 8 | Children in Humanistic Photography |
| Protective influences |
| 9 | Madonnas |
| 10 | Sleeping children and protective angels |
| 11 | Charity during the American Civil War: The Children of the Battlefield |
| 12 | Emancipated slaves in the USA |
| 13 | Thomas Barnardo: Children Reclaimed for LIfe |
| Post-mortem and memento mori |
| 14 | Post-mortem and memento mori photographs of babies and children |
| Photographers |
| 15 | Lewis Carroll: Portraits of children |
| 16 | Julia Margaret Cameron: Portraits of Archie and other children |
| 17 | Clarence H. White: Ring Toss (1899) |
| 18 | Lady Ottoline Morrell: Children cavorting at Garsington |
| 19 | Wilhelm von Gloeden: Young girl with flowers |
| 20 | Lewis W. Hine: The reform of child labour in America |
| 21 | André Kertész: Children |
| 22 | W. Eugene Smith: Juanita |
| 23 | Helen Levitt: Children of New York |
| 24 | Roger Mayne: Youth |
| 25 | Marcia Resnick: Re-Visions |
| 26 | Lauren Greenfield: Girl Culture |
| 27 | Loretta Lux: Children |
| 28 | Hisaji Hara: A Photographic Portrayal of the Paintings of Balthus (2009) |
| Photographing children |
| 29 | Photographing children |
| 30 | Watch-the-birdie |
