Photographs of Children

The art of photographing children

Jul. 16—Sep. 19, 2011

• Jul. 16—Sep. 19, 2011
• Closed Monday(if Monday is a national holiday or a substitute holiday, it is the next day)
• Admission：Adults ￥500／College Students ￥400／High School and Junior High School Students, Over 65 ￥250

This year the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography will hold three exhibitions of works primarily from our collection, organized around "children" as our theme.

To photographers, children have been fascinating subjects ever since the invention of photography. Thus, by choosing "children" as our theme in exploring the works in our collection, we can examine how images of children have changed in ways that reflect changes in the course of history, what seems timeless in images of children, and how a photographer's distinctive eye and the social context are vividly expressed in the resulting work. These three perspectives inform all three of our exhibitions. Together they constitute what we call the emotional landscape of the child.

The second exhibition (July 16 – September 19) is entitled The Art of Photographing Children. Here our topic is the child as a photographic subject, as seen from the perspective of photographic technique. Since the nineteenth century, when only a handful of photographers photographed children, images of children have proliferated. Today, when everyone takes photographs, children are always a focus of their work. 

SHIMOOKA Renjo （Children selling flowers）　c1862‐78
CAMERON,Julia Margaret Margaret c1860-70


EDGERTON,Harold Eugene,Mary Lou Jump-rope,1940
EUGENE Frank,Nude-A Child,from Camera Work Number XXXI Mdccc X July 1910, 1910 
MEKAS Jonas, Oona takes a picture,1977 Paradise Not Yet Lost,or Oona's Third Year,From"Frozen Film Frames" 1977


KUROKAWA Suizan, Adorable Child c1906-1910

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