Smile for the camera! Magical images of childhood – in pictures

Alice and Helen, Seacoal Camp, Lynemouth, Northumberland, UK, 1982

Highlights include rare works by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paul Strand, Robert Doisneau, Dorothea Lange, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Roger Mayne, Edward Steichen, modern masterpieces by Chris Killip and Irving Penn and a host of iconic images by almost 50 different photographers from all over the world