The school photograph: Portraiture and the art of assembling the body of the schoolchild

History of Education

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 213-226

  Burke, Catherine ^a   De Castro, Helena Ribeiro ^a  

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EID: 33847664659     PISSN: 0046760X     EISSN: 14645130     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00467600601171450     Document Type: Review

References (17)

1. Taos County, New Mexico, 127/1941. Teachers cooperate with itinerant photographer at Questa school. Photographer makes rounds of schools, takes pictures of children in rapid succession, sells small prints three for 15 cents, six for 25 cents. When the finished pictures are received at the school some days later, the problem is theirs of matching the picture to the subject, not always an easy task. National (US) Archives at College Park. National US Archives II (College Park, MD)NAIL Control Number: NWDNS-83-G-41641. Local Identifier: NWDNS-83-G-41641. With thanks to Eric Margolis for the reference to this image.
2. The social construction of a division between public and private spaces has been subject to critique by feminist theorists such as Vickery, A. "A Historiographical Review: Golden Age to Separate Spheres? A Review of the Categories and Chronology of English Women's History." Historical Journal 36 (1993): 383-41. Such social constructions have underpinned the history of relationships between school and home, between institutional and domestic spaces.
3. Wenders, W., in conversation with Jansen, P.W. "The Truth of Images: Two Conversations with Peter W. Jansen," in Wenders, W. The Act of Seeing: Essays and Conversations. Frankfurt: Verlag der Autoren, 1992. (English translation by Michael Hoffman) London: Faber & Faber, 1996: 52-3.
4. Fischman, G. E. "Reflections about Images, Visual Culture and Educational Research." Educational Researcher 30, no, 8 (2001): 28-33.
5. See, for example, the following collections: Grosvenor, Ian, M. Lawn, and K. Rousmaniere. eds. Silences and Images: The Social History of the Classroom. New York: Peter Lang, 1999;
6. Grosvenor, Ian, and Martin Lawn. "The Challenge of the Visual in the History of Education." Paedagogica Historica 36, no. 1 (2000); 11-17;
7. "Ways of Seeing." History of Education 30, no. 2 (2001);
8. Myers, K., U. Mietzner, and N. Peim. Visual History. Images of Education. London: Peter Lang, 2005.
9. Berger, J. Ways of Seeing. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1972.
10. On the left of the main entrance to the building, we find a matching figure of a schoolboy. Photograph, C. Burke.
11. Holyoake, G. "Survivors of the First Free Schools. London Charity Children Statues." Country Life 13 November 1980.
12. For a wider discussion of visual and material cultures of schooling, see Grosvenor, Lawn, and Rousmaniere, Silences and Images.
13. Rousmaniere, K. "Questioning the Visual in the History of Education." History of Education 30, no. 2 (2001): 109-16.
14. Grosvenor, Ian, Martin Lawn, and Kate Rousmaniere. "Imaging Past Schooling: the Necessity for Montage." The University of Leuven ISCHE Workshop, Summer 1998. Available from http://www.greenhill.wyenet.co.uk/ Leuven%20Workshop%201998 (accessed 1 November 2006); INTERNET.
15. Ibid.
16. Earlier photos show the students with an almost masculine aspect, using the same uniform with no ties; very long skirts and the white shirts fasten to the upper button.
17. One contemporary example of such collaborative comparative work is emerging through the EU (Socrates) project, Childhood, Youth and Education in European Cultural History, which is building a Web-based archive of images drawn from five partner countries to support a European MA. See http://www.education. bham.ac.uk/programmes/pgrad/cpd/profiles/history/histeu.htm; INTERNET.