ABSTRACT
The article conveys some thoughts about the studies conducted along the last twenty years, focusing on the relationships between childhood, visual culture, and consumption. Those studies, embedded in the visual culture field, investigate not just images, but specially children’s interactions with and through the images. It points how children ‘are’ with the artifacts of visual culture. For we are connected with many images today, we live ‘cultural experiences of seeing,’ and the challenge to figure how our children handle this ‘existential sightseeing’ in the midst of the consumption lived by them.
Keywords
Visual culture; Development; Childhood