Author： Smith Lindsay
Publisher： Routledge Ltd
ISSN： 1470-1308
Source： Textual Practice, Vol.17, Iss.1, 2003-03, pp. : 1-6
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Abstract
How do we reconcile recent photographic representations of the "innocence' of childhood with the UN statistics on child poverty and ages of criminal responsibility? Britain has one of the highest levels of child poverty in the European Union and two of the lowest ages of criminal responsibility - 10 in England and 8 in Scotland - yet it continues to feed to a viewing public images of children that play upon a concept of innocence. A discussion of the developmental category of childhood alongside that of the medium of photography in the nineteenth century brings to the fore the heart of such contradictions. A shift in the predominant understanding of the term "innocence' throws into relief that which is at stake in an assumed compatibility between a child and its photographic representation.
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