When They Were Young Hardcover by Robert Coles

Product Details

• Publisher: Kales Press (2002-09-24)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 168 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780967007656
• Item Weight: 1369.87 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

For the first time, the Library of Congress presents a collection of touching and timeless photographs of children from its extraordinary photographic archive.

Married with heartfelt prose by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Coles and a foreword by Librarian of Congress James H. Billington, When They Were Young reveals that the experience of childhood is connected across time through a broad presentation of eloquent images.

Spanning the history of photography from the daguerreotype to documentary, each tritone image in this volume is illustrated on a full page. Works by internationally renowned photographers such as Edward Curtis and Dorothea Lange are included. The companion exhibition, When They Were Young: A Photographic Retrospective of Childhood opened in Fall 2002 in the Library's Jefferson Building. The publication and exhibition will be featured at the Library's annual National Book Festival. 78 full-page tritone photographs.

About the Author

Robert Coles is a professor emeritus of psychiatry and medical humanities at the Harvard Medical School and a former research psychiatrist for the Harvard University Health Services. His many books include the Pulitzer Prize–winning five-volume Children of Crisis, as well as the bestselling The Moral Intelligence of Children, The Spiritual Intelligence of Children, and Bruce Springsteen’s America. He lives in Massachusetts.