ICON conducts research projects independently and accepts commissions.
For Archive, the museum publication of the National Media Museum (UK), a survey was carried out regarding the history of baby contests and pageants in relation to photography ‘Beautifying babies: A brief history of baby contests and baby pageants’
Innocent human. Photographic portraits of babies from 1839 to the present day (2005) is an exhaustive study into the representation of babies since the beginning of photography. The subject is placed in a social, historical, cultural and psychological context. Please follow the link to the PDF text (PDF image can be obtained through ICON).
For Jong Holland, journal of art history, a survey was carried out concerning the shelf life of photographs in museum collections (Not for all eternity, April 2005, summary).
