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Outside the dream : child poverty in America / photographs by Stephen Shames ; introduction by Jonathan Kozol ; afterword by Marian Wright Edelman.

Title
Outside the dream : child poverty in America / photographs by Stephen Shames ; introduction by Jonathan Kozol ; afterword by Marian Wright Edelman.
Author
Shames, Stephen
Publication
[New York] : Aperture : Children's Defense Fund ; [New York] : Distributed by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux , c1991.

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Additional Authors
  • Kozol, Jonathan
  • Edelman, Marian Wright
  • Children's Defense Fund (U.S.)
Description
87 p. : chiefly ill.; 28 cm.
Summary
Depicts the dangers children face from poverty, drugs, and violence. Documentary photography at its most affecting, Outside the dream rivets attention on one of our most urgent social problems: the more than 12 million children of poverty adrift in an affluent society. From 1984-1989, photographer Stephen Shames devoted himself to a major photographic study which chronicles the lives of the one out of five children in the United States who live in poverty...While documenting the plight of children living below the poverty line, Shames intimately experience daily existence in welfare hotels and abandoned buildings; he documented children living in cars, seeking shelter in churches, and struggling to survive without electricity or water. Shames' extraordinary eye bears witness to the heartbreaking and the heroic: the children who are too tired or ashamed to go to school, and the love which binds families together even in the worst of situations. The photographs which comprise Outside the dream evoke the unflinching emotional commitment of Jacob Riis' How the other half lives and Walker Evans' Let us now praise famous men. An introduction by eminent journalist Jonathan Kozol completes this stirring work.
Subject
  • Poor children > United States > Pictorial works
  • Homeless children > United States > Pictorial works
  • Photography of children > United States
  • Poor children > United States
  • Child Welfare
  • Poverty
  • Infant
  • Child
Genre/Form
  • Pictorial works
  • Pictorial works.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 089381475X (pbk.)
  • 0893814687 (hardcover) :
LCCN
^^^90084833^
OCLC
  • 24138392
  • SCSB-12759811
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library