[Not Your Kids/Not Your Parents]

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Photographs of the 2017-2018 artist's book competition winner "Not Your Kids/Not Your Parents" created by Grethe Wirth. Media: leather, Ink and watercolor on paper. Not Your Kids is based on vintage wallets that a parent would have containing photos of their children. The photos contain only children, with empty spaces where the parents should be. Not Your Parents is based on a vintage photo album, and contains the same photos as Not Your Kids, but with only the parents visible, and the children missing. The first image is of a grey cover and a light blue cover. The grey cover … continued below

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5 photographs : col. ill. ; 1494 x 1007 px. 1860 x 1240 px. 1944 x 1296 px. 1687 x 1131 px.

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Wirth, Grethe 2017/2018.

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This photograph is part of the collection entitled: University Photography Collection and was provided by the UNT Libraries Special Collections to The Portal to Texas History, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. It has been viewed 208 times. More information about this photograph can be viewed below.

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Photographs of the 2017-2018 artist's book competition winner "Not Your Kids/Not Your Parents" created by Grethe Wirth. Media: leather, Ink and watercolor on paper. Not Your Kids is based on vintage wallets that a parent would have containing photos of their children. The photos contain only children, with empty spaces where the parents should be. Not Your Parents is based on a vintage photo album, and contains the same photos as Not Your Kids, but with only the parents visible, and the children missing. The first image is of a grey cover and a light blue cover. The grey cover has a grey strap on the side, shapes made to look like the words "Not Your Kids." The blue cover is tied at the top with string looped through two holes. Image 2, grey leather is spread open, three sections of white paper laying on it with string tied over it. Image 3, closeup of three panels of white paper. On the left side an illustration of a young boy and girl are seen. On the right, a folded page is seen inside with an illustration of a young girl. Image 4, a book is opened up to a page containing an illustration of a man in a suit looking down at a white bundle in his arms. The print of the inside blue cover can be seen. Image 5, book opened up to an illustration of a man in a patterned shirt laying down on a couch, holding a book.

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5 photographs : col. ill. ; 1494 x 1007 px. 1860 x 1240 px. 1944 x 1296 px. 1687 x 1131 px.

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This image was taken for use in the digital version of UNT Special Collections' exhibit of its Biennial Artists' Book Competition.

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  • Preferred Citation: University Photography Collection (U0458), University of North Texas Special Collections

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Drawn from the UNT Archives, these photographs depict images of University of North Texas football, UNT alumni and alumni events, and images of the changing and growing University of North Texas campus.

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  • 2017/2018

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  • June 17, 2020, 1:52 p.m.

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Wirth, Grethe. [Not Your Kids/Not Your Parents], photograph, 2017/2018; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1703830/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.

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