Baby, Baby, Sweet Baby

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At the sight of an infant, past, present and a vision of the future become one. This perfect newness, this unclouded curiosity and optimism, are both memory and legacy. We reach out, involuntarily, responding to an innocence and need upon which we clearly are dependent. Yet we also feel some trepidation in the face of the mystery of human consciousness forming, wondering if we are reflected in its gaze—and sensing that, miraculously, we are.
Babies are truly a state of our collective mind. In them we vest our hopes, to them we make inviolate promises, for them we plot the grandest of futures and prepare for the greatest of sacrifices. In the end, as we had hoped and feared, they will choose their own way. But for now they remain here with us, to make us laugh and cry, to steal our nights and our hearts—and ultimately to make us just a little more human.
For this book, Bruce Velick (author of A Kiss Is Just a Kiss, Harmony Books) has collected sixty photographs of babies being... Tovább

Fülszöveg

At the sight of an infant, past, present and a vision of the future become one. This perfect newness, this unclouded curiosity and optimism, are both memory and legacy. We reach out, involuntarily, responding to an innocence and need upon which we clearly are dependent. Yet we also feel some trepidation in the face of the mystery of human consciousness forming, wondering if we are reflected in its gaze—and sensing that, miraculously, we are.
Babies are truly a state of our collective mind. In them we vest our hopes, to them we make inviolate promises, for them we plot the grandest of futures and prepare for the greatest of sacrifices. In the end, as we had hoped and feared, they will choose their own way. But for now they remain here with us, to make us laugh and cry, to steal our nights and our hearts—and ultimately to make us just a little more human.
For this book, Bruce Velick (author of A Kiss Is Just a Kiss, Harmony Books) has collected sixty photographs of babies being babies, toying and dallying with us. Together, these photographs are an irresistible, loving celebration ofbabydom, with all its joys, mysteries and pleasures.
Among the photographers included in this book are:
Bruce Davidson
Edward S. Curtis
Eve Arnold
Garry Winogrand
Mary Ellen Mark
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Jacques Henri Lartigue
Nicholas Nixon
Robert Doisneau Edouard Boubat-Jan Saudek Josef Koudelka W. Eugene Smith Elliot Erwitt Wayne Miller Louis Stettner Sylvia Plachy Vissza