I Wanna Take Me a Picture: Teaching Photography and Writing to Children
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (907 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0807031410 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-21 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Written for parents and teachers, I Wanna Take Me a Picture is an accessible and practical guide to getting children involved in photography. Through a series of lessons-from self-portraiture to representing their dreams-it teaches everything a beginner needs to know: how to compose a picture, set up a darkroom, and develop film.
Ewald's project is wonderful because it lets kids speak for themselves; instead of being passive subjects for the lens, they eagerly harness it to the engine of their imaginations. --Andy Grundberg, The New York Times"What's striking about Ewald's work is not just the effect she has on her students but the results they achieve together." --Francine Prose, O: The Oprah Magazine"Young people know joy, sorrow, and loss. This book is needed!" --Deborah Willis, author of Reflections in Black"A treasure of photos taken by the author and her pupils, plus stirring testimonies from children around the glo
from Harvard University in 1998. Wendy Ewald is artist-in-residence at the John Hope Franklin Center, a research associate at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, and a senior fellow at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School University. . She lives with her husband and son in the Hudson Valley, New York.Alexandra Lightf
Great resource for teachers! This book guides you through teaching literacy through photography to children, for which Ms. Ewald is well known. It is a fantastic resource for someone who wants to really teach the heart and soul of photography, as well as visual literacy - a great introduction to photography but even a seasoned photographer can learn something new from this book. Ms. Ewald takes you through her curriculum step by step as she would teach her students and give. I wish I had written this book! It is I wish I had written this book! It is a practical guide for teachers and others who use photography with students to foster critical thinking and understanding!. Fabulous! MileStones I absolutely love this book! I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. The story is captivating, and I find myself lost in the text.But I did not purchase this book for leisure reading. I was searching for a book that is an instructional guide to photographic projects for children. This book is not written in the step-by-step format I was looking for. I wanted fully layed out lesson plans, etc. But I was not dissappointed. All of the information I