Midwestern photographer Alec Soth described photographically illustrated picturebooks as “oddballs in the universe of children’s literature.” In this episode of 25 for 25 we explore, The First Picture Book: Everyday Things for Babies, a photographically illustrated picturebook created by American photographer Edward Steichen and his daughter Mary Steichen Martin found in the Billy M. Levy Collection of Illustrated Children’s Literature.
Featured Collections:
Calderone, Mary Steichen, and Edward Steichen. First Picture Book : Everyday Things for Babies. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1930. Print. Billie M. Levy Collection of Illustrated Children's Books.
Calderone, Mary Steichen, Edward Steichen, John Updike, and Whitney Museum of American Art. The First Picture Book : Everyday Things for Babies. New York: Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1991. Print. Artists and Writers Ser. ; 9th.
Sandburg, Carl. Steichen the Photographer. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1929. Print.
Brecher, Ruth., and Brecher, Edward M. An Analysis of Human Sexual Response. New York: New American Library, 1966. Print. Signet Book ; Y4045.
Sex Information Education Council of the U.S. SIECUS Newsletter. (1965). Print.