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In 1950, with the aim of promoting tolerance by introducing children from different countries to each others' lives, and international understanding through children's literature that would also be read by adults, Riwkin-Brick was commissioned by the UNESCO to make a photo book about the [[Sami people]].<ref>Druker, E. (2011). To Mirror the Real: Ideology and Aesthetics in Photographic Picturebooks. In {{Citation | author1=Kümmerling-Meibauer, Bettina, (editor.) | title=Beyond pippi longstocking : Intermedial and international approaches to astrid lindgren's work | publication-date=2014 | isbn=978-1-138-84726-2 }}</ref> She persuaded Elly Jannes, a journalist for the journal ''Vi'', to write the text for ''Vandrande by'' ('Wandering Village', also released as 'Nomads of the North'), published in 1950.  Anna Riwkin-Brick she took many photos of a Sami family’s little girl Elle Kari that were not included in the ''Vandrande by'' edition, and Elly Jannes, suggested they make another photo book about Elle Kari and to aim it at a child audience which was published in 1951.
In 1950, with the aim of promoting tolerance by introducing children from different countries to each others' lives, and international understanding through children's literature that would also be read by adults, Riwkin-Brick was commissioned by the UNESCO to make a photo book about the [[Sami people]].<ref>Druker, E. (2011). To Mirror the Real: Ideology and Aesthetics in Photographic Picturebooks. In {{Citation | author1=Kümmerling-Meibauer, Bettina, (editor.) | title=Beyond pippi longstocking : Intermedial and international approaches to astrid lindgren's work | publication-date=2014 | isbn=978-1-138-84726-2 }}</ref> She persuaded Elly Jannes, a journalist for the journal ''Vi'', to write the text for ''Vandrande by'' ('Wandering Village', also released as 'Nomads of the North'), published in 1950.  Anna Riwkin-Brick she took many photos of a Sami family’s little girl Elle Kari that were not included in the ''Vandrande by'' edition, and Elly Jannes, suggested they make another photo book about Elle Kari and to aim it at a child audience which was published in 1951.


It was the first Swedish picturebook with photos of everyday life of a child in a continuous story, and the first of many such books that the photographer was to make. It was a success. Translated into eighteen languages in editions with high print runs; 25,000 copies were printed for the first edition released in Germany, the United Kingdom,<ref>Graves, P. (1975). Swedish Children's Books in Britain. Signal, 18, 137.</ref> and the United States.<ref name=":1">{{Citation | author1=WESSELING, ELISABETH | title=Reinventing childhood nostalgia : Books, toys, and contemporary media culture | publication-date=2017 | publisher=Routledge | isbn=978-1-4724-7412-4 }}</ref> Riwkin-Brick issued a series of 19 children's books, each focusing on the everyday life of a child in a particular place or country. For nine of these books, [[Astrid Lindgren]] wrote the text<ref>Ehriander, H. (2011). Everyday and Exotic. Astrid Lindgren’s Co-operation with Anna Riwkin-Brick.</ref><ref name=":0" /> and authors for others include Hebrew author [[Leah Goldberg|Lea Goldberg]] who contributed the text for ''Eli bar i  Israel'' (Eli Lives in Israel, 1964); [[Cordelia Edvardson]], an immigrant from Germany to Sweden and author of the autobiographical novel ''Briinnt barn'' (Burnt Child, 1985), wrote the  text for ''Mirjam bar i Kibbutz'' (Mirjam Lives in a Kibbutz, 1969);  Riwkin-Brick's sister [[Eugénie Söderberg|Eugenie Soderberg]] penned the text of ''Makihana'' (1961); and Vera Forsberg contributed the texts for ''Gennet bar  i Etiopien'' (Gennet Lives in Ethiopia, 1967) and ''Salima bar i Kashmir''  (Salimar Lives in Kashmir, 1970).
It was the first Swedish picturebook with photos of everyday life of a child in a continuous story, and the first of many such books that the photographer was to make. It was a success. Translated into eighteen languages in editions with high print runs;<ref>Kümmerling-Meibauer, B. (2013). Childhood and Modernist Art. Libri et liberi: časopis za istraživanje dječje književnosti i kulture, 2(1.), 11-28.</ref> 25,000 copies were printed for the first edition released in Germany, the United Kingdom,<ref>Graves, P. (1975). Swedish Children's Books in Britain. Signal, 18, 137.</ref> and the United States.<ref name=":1">{{Citation | author1=WESSELING, ELISABETH | title=Reinventing childhood nostalgia : Books, toys, and contemporary media culture | publication-date=2017 | publisher=Routledge | isbn=978-1-4724-7412-4 }}</ref> Riwkin-Brick issued a series of 19 children's books, each focusing on the everyday life of a child in a particular place or country. For nine of these books, [[Astrid Lindgren]] wrote the text<ref>Ehriander, H. (2011). Everyday and Exotic. Astrid Lindgren’s Co-operation with Anna Riwkin-Brick.</ref><ref name=":0" /> and authors for others include Hebrew author [[Leah Goldberg|Lea Goldberg]] who contributed the text for ''Eli bar i  Israel'' (Eli Lives in Israel, 1964); [[Cordelia Edvardson]], an immigrant from Germany to Sweden and author of the autobiographical novel ''Briinnt barn'' (Burnt Child, 1985), wrote the  text for ''Mirjam bar i Kibbutz'' (Mirjam Lives in a Kibbutz, 1969);  Riwkin-Brick's sister [[Eugénie Söderberg|Eugenie Soderberg]] penned the text of ''Makihana'' (1961); and Vera Forsberg contributed the texts for ''Gennet bar  i Etiopien'' (Gennet Lives in Ethiopia, 1967) and ''Salima bar i Kashmir''  (Salimar Lives in Kashmir, 1970).


== Award and legacy ==
== Award and legacy ==

Revision as of 01:34, 10 September 2018

Anna Riwkin-Brick or just Anna Riwkin (Surazh, Chernigov Governorate, Russia 23 June [O.S. 10 June] 1908 -- Tel Aviv 19 December 1970) was a Russian-born Swedish photographer.[1]

Early life

Portrait of Anna Riwkin-Brick in 1950. Photographer unknown.

Anna Riwkin was born in a Jewish family in the Russian Empire and came to Sweden with her parents in 1915. She started learning ballet as a child and danced professionally for some time before an injured foot put an early stop to her career.

Photographer

She was employed as an assistant to the photographer Moisé Benkow in 1927, and started her own portrait studio in Stockholm in 1928. She married the journalist Daniel Brick in 1929 and marketed her work by displaying portraits of young writers and intellectuals from among her husband's acquaintances.[1]

As a former dancer, she remained interested in dance as a subject of photography[2] and illustrated a book on Swedish dance, Svensk danskonst, published in 1932. She later illustrated a book on ballet in 1960, Balettskolan with texts by the choreographer Birgit Cullberg and the dance teacher Lilian Karina Vasarhelyi.[3]

Recognition

From the 1930s, Riwkin added journalistic work to her repertoire, collaborating on several books with the journalist Elly Jannes and the writer Ivar Lo-Johansson. After the Second World War, she worked for the Swedish photojournalistic magazine Se, for which she went on numerous trips both within Sweden and to foreign countries, such as Japan, Korea, Israel and India. From these came the work selected by Edward Steichen for his 1955 globally-touring The Family of Man exhibition.[4] One, of a family in the snow in Lapland, is typical of work she was later to publish in children's books, while the other represents a Palestinian woman protesting occupation by Israel.[5][6]

Children's picture books with photography

Riwkin-Brick contributed significantly to the growing use of photographs in children's picture-books, a genre that developed in the second half of the century.

In 1950, with the aim of promoting tolerance by introducing children from different countries to each others' lives, and international understanding through children's literature that would also be read by adults, Riwkin-Brick was commissioned by the UNESCO to make a photo book about the Sami people.[7] She persuaded Elly Jannes, a journalist for the journal Vi, to write the text for Vandrande by ('Wandering Village', also released as 'Nomads of the North'), published in 1950.  Anna Riwkin-Brick she took many photos of a Sami family’s little girl Elle Kari that were not included in the Vandrande by edition, and Elly Jannes, suggested they make another photo book about Elle Kari and to aim it at a child audience which was published in 1951.

It was the first Swedish picturebook with photos of everyday life of a child in a continuous story, and the first of many such books that the photographer was to make. It was a success. Translated into eighteen languages in editions with high print runs;[8] 25,000 copies were printed for the first edition released in Germany, the United Kingdom,[9] and the United States.[4] Riwkin-Brick issued a series of 19 children's books, each focusing on the everyday life of a child in a particular place or country. For nine of these books, Astrid Lindgren wrote the text[10][1] and authors for others include Hebrew author Lea Goldberg who contributed the text for Eli bar i  Israel (Eli Lives in Israel, 1964); Cordelia Edvardson, an immigrant from Germany to Sweden and author of the autobiographical novel Briinnt barn (Burnt Child, 1985), wrote the  text for Mirjam bar i Kibbutz (Mirjam Lives in a Kibbutz, 1969);  Riwkin-Brick's sister Eugenie Soderberg penned the text of Makihana (1961); and Vera Forsberg contributed the texts for Gennet bar  i Etiopien (Gennet Lives in Ethiopia, 1967) and Salima bar i Kashmir  (Salimar Lives in Kashmir, 1970).

Award and legacy

Anna Riwkin-Brick received the Elsa Beskow Medal in 1963, the first time it was awarded to a photographer instead of an illustrator.[4]

On the instruction of her will, her photographs were donated to Moderna museet in Stockholm.

Exhibitions

Exhibitions of photographs by Anna Riwkin-Brick were held at the Moderna museet, Stockholm:

  • December 10, 1977—March 5, 1978,[11]
  • February 14—May 23, 2004[12]

Publications

  • Riwkin-Brick, Anna; Brick, Daniel (1948), Palestine : photographs by Anna Riwkin-Brick, World Pub. Co
  • Riwkin-Brick, Anna; Jannes, Elly (1950), Nomads of the north, Kooperativa förbundets bokförlag
  • Riwkin-Brick, Anna, 1908-1970; Arvidsson, Karl Axel (1953), Millesgården, Rabén & Sjögren, Veckotidingen Vi{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  • Riwkin-Brick, Anna; Jannes, Elly (1956), Elle Kari, Methuen
  • Riwkin-Brick, Anna; Lindgren, Astrid, 1907-2002 (1959), My Swedish cousins, Swedish Institute : Rabén & Sjörgen{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  • Lindgren, Astrid; Riwkin-Brick, Anna, 1908-1970 (1959), Sia lives on Kilimanjaro, Methuen & Co{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  • Arvidsson, Karl Axel; Riwkin-Brick, Anna, 1908-1970; Dancy, Eric; Burke, P. E (1960), Carl Milles and Millesagarden, Raben & Sjogren{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  • Riwkin-Brick, Anna; Lindgren, Astrid, 1907-2002 (1961), Lilibet, circus child, Macmillan{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  • Riwkin-Brick, Anna; Soderberg, Eugénie. Hawaii, a way of life (1962), Hawaii, a way of life, Macmillan Company{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Riwkin-Brick, Anna; Lindgren, Astrid, 1907-2002 (1963), Dirk lives in Holland, Methuen{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  • Riwkin-Brick, Anna; Lindgren, Astrid, 1907-2002 (1965), Randi lives in Norway, Macmillan{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  • Goldberg, Leah; ‏גולדברג, לאה ‏; Riwkin-Brick, Anna, 1908-1970, (illustrator.); ‏רבקין־בריק, חנה ‏, ‏1908־1970 (1966), Harpatḳah ba-midbar, [Tel Aviv] Ha-Ḳibuts ha-meʼuḥad{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  • Bushell, Gerard; Riwkin-Brick, Anna, 1908-, (illus.) (1969), Churches of the Holy Land, Cassell, ISBN 978-0-304-93370-9{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  • Lindgren, Astrid; Lindgren, Astrid, 1907-2002 (1965), Gerda lives in Norway, Methuen{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  • Riwkin-Brick, Anna; Lindgren, Astrid, 1907-2002 (1967), Noy lives in Thailand, Methuen{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  • Edwardson, Cordelia; Riwkin-Brick, Anna, 1908-1970 (1970), Miriam lives in a kibbutz, Wheaton, ISBN 978-0-08-006572-4{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  • Forsberg, Vera; Riwkin-Brick, Anna, 1908- (1971), Salima lives in Kashmir, Methuen, ISBN 978-0-416-65340-3{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  • Wine, Maria; Riwkin-Brick, Anna, 1908-1970, (ill.) (1971), Djurkrets. : Dikter av Maria Wine. Bilder av Anna Riukin, Rabén & Sjögren, ISBN 978-91-29-43174-2{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  • Moderna museet (Stockholm, Sweden); Wigh, Leif; Bergman, Ulla; Sidwall, Åke (1977), Fotografer--Curt Götlin, Anna Riwkin, Karl Sandels, Moderna museet/Fotografiska museet, ISBN 978-91-7100-133-7
  • Riwkin-Brick, Anna; Lindgren, Astrid, 1907-2002; Ó Súilleabháin, Eoghan (1979), Klaas as an Ísiltír, Oifig an tSoláthair{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

Publications about Anna Riwkin-Brick

  • Wigh, Leif; Moderna museet (Stockholm, Sweden) (2004), Anna Riwkin : portrait of a photographer, Moderna museet, ISBN 978-91-7100-699-8
  • Catalogue of an exhibition at Fotografiska museet, Dec. 10th 1977-March 5th, 1978. Moderna museet (Stockholm, Sweden); Wigh, Leif; Bergman, Ulla; Sidwall, Åke (1977), Fotografer--Curt Götlin, Anna Riwkin, Karl Sandels, Moderna museet/Fotografiska museet, ISBN 978-91-7100-133-7

References

  1. ^ a b c Rittsel, Pär: "Riwkin-Brick, Anna", Svenskt biografiskt lexikon, 30, pp. 243–246.
  2. ^ Melin Fredholm, Ulrika: "Dansfotografi", Moderna museet, Stockholm.
  3. ^ Melin Fredholm; Entry for Balettskolan in LIBRIS.
  4. ^ a b c WESSELING, ELISABETH (2017), Reinventing childhood nostalgia : Books, toys, and contemporary media culture, Routledge, ISBN 978-1-4724-7412-4
  5. ^ Steichen, Edward; Steichen, Edward, 1879-1973, (organizer.); Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967, (writer of foreword.); Norman, Dorothy, 1905-1997, (writer of added text.); Lionni, Leo, 1910-1999, (book designer.); Mason, Jerry, (editor.); Stoller, Ezra, (photographer.); Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1955). The family of man : the photographic exhibition. Published for the Museum of Modern Art by Simon and Schuster in collaboration with the Maco Magazine Corporation. {{cite book}}: |author6= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ Johannesson, Lena, 1945-; Kanape, Gunilla; Dahlman, Eva, 1947-; Göteborgs universitet; Hasselblad Center (2003), Women photographers : European experience, Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, p. 19,56-58, ISBN 978-91-7346-474-1{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ Druker, E. (2011). To Mirror the Real: Ideology and Aesthetics in Photographic Picturebooks. In Kümmerling-Meibauer, Bettina, (editor.) (2014), Beyond pippi longstocking : Intermedial and international approaches to astrid lindgren's work, ISBN 978-1-138-84726-2 {{citation}}: |author1= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ Kümmerling-Meibauer, B. (2013). Childhood and Modernist Art. Libri et liberi: časopis za istraživanje dječje književnosti i kulture, 2(1.), 11-28.
  9. ^ Graves, P. (1975). Swedish Children's Books in Britain. Signal, 18, 137.
  10. ^ Ehriander, H. (2011). Everyday and Exotic. Astrid Lindgren’s Co-operation with Anna Riwkin-Brick.
  11. ^ Moderna museet (Stockholm, Sweden); Wigh, Leif; Bergman, Ulla; Sidwall, Åke (1977), Fotografer--Curt Götlin, Anna Riwkin, Karl Sandels, Moderna museet/Fotografiska museet, ISBN 978-91-7100-133-7
  12. ^ Anna Riwkin: Porträtt av en fotograf 14 februari 2004 -- 23 maj 2004 "Portrait of a photographer 14 February 2004 -- 23 May 2004", Moderna museet, Stockholm

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