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Art: Photography
Picturing Childhood: Portraits From The Masters Of Early Photography (1850–1930)
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Julia Margaret Cameron, Paul and Virginia (1864), Courtesy Castle in the Air, Berkeley
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Opens Tuesday Oct 20, 2009 (6pm)
Oct 10, 2009 – Nov 18, 2009
Mondays–Saturdays (10am–6pm)
Sundays (11am–6pm)
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You can thank the Victorians for the continuing source of horror and fascination that is the photography of Anne Geddes. OK, so maybe pioneering photographers such as Julia Margaret Cameron and Felix Nadar weren't styling newborns to look like cabbages, but they certainly helped codify the visual language of children as prelapsarian vessels of purity and innocence (and not without some frequently creepy results, as in Lewis Carroll's borderline-jailbait pictures of Alice Lidell). Picturing Childhood explores the construction of childhood through images by Cameron, Nadar, and Carroll, along with others from a never-before-displayed private collection that includes Edweard Muybridge, Edward S. Curtis, Carl Moon, Alfred Stieglitz, and Clarence White, among others.
