Confronting Childhood

Confronting Childhood considers the complex reality of childhood and family life in the modern world. 

Spanning more than 150 years, the exhibition affords glimpses of children and their families through the vantage point of painting and primarily photography, including artists such as Diane Arbus, Ruth Bernhard, Lewis Carroll, Lewis Hine, Dorothea Lange, Sally Mann, and Clarence White.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website

Sally Mann, American, born 1951. Under Blueberry Hill, 1991. Gelatin silver print; image: 48.3 × 58.4 cm (19 × 23 in.) sheet: 50.8 × 60.3 cm (20 × 23 3/4 in.) Princeton University Art Museum. Museum purchase, Philip F. Maritz, Class of 1983, Photography Acquisitions Fund © Sally Mann, Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery