Journal article
Taking the children: Some reflections at a distance on the camera and Dr Barnardo
Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media and Culture, Vol.5(1), pp.32-50
1991
Abstract
My focus of attention is a collection of photographs taken in the last quarter of the 19th century for Dr Barnardo, founder of the well-known British institutions for orphans and street children. In particular I examine, as political texts, the individual portraits of the children he 'rescued' from street middens. A paradigmatic case is looked at in some detail, a photograph taken by Thomas Barnes or Roderick Johnstone on 5th January 1883 of a young girl called Sarah Burgess.
Details
- Title
- Taking the children: Some reflections at a distance on the camera and Dr Barnardo
- Authors/Creators
- A. McHoul (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media and Culture, Vol.5(1), pp.32-50
- Publisher
- Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group
- Identifiers
- 991005543667107891
- Copyright
- 1991 Taylor & Francis
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Humanities
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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