Portraits and Dreams Delve Deeper Reading List

Portraits and Dreams revisits photographs created by Kentucky schoolchildren in the 1970s and the place where the photos were made. The film is about the students, their work as visionary photographers and the lives they have led since then, as well as the linkage of personal memory to the passage of time. A POV co-production with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the American people.

This list of fiction and nonfiction books, compiled by Susan Conlon, MLS, and Kim Dorman, Community Engagement Coordinator of Princeton Public Library, provides a range of perspectives on the issues raised by the POV documentary Portraits and Dreams.

Susan Conlon