Acclaimed photographer Wendy Ewald has worked with children around the world, using photography to enable them to express what they think and feel. I Wanna Take Me a Picture is an accessible and practical guide to getting children involved in photography. It uses basic assignments—self-portraiture, family portraiture, community, and dreams—to teach everything from framing and point of view to how to set up a darkroom and develop film. "Ms. Ewald was one of the first—and remains the most committed—artists to bring photography into the lives of children who have little else." —Taylor Holliday, The Wall Street Journal

I Wanna Take Me a Picture: Teaching Photography and Writing to Children

Arts & Photography

Wendy Ewald

Photography & Video

Beacon Pr

Wendy Ewald has collaborated with children and adults around the world for forty years, encouraging them to use cameras to create self-portraits and articulate their fantasies and dreams. In this new public art project Ewald partners with painter Brett Cook to lead the Amherst College campus in exploring the meaning of community and learning. Cook engages in public art projects which often involve teaching workshops along with making music and food. In this project Ewald and Cook work with eighteen Amherst students, faculty, and staff to probe perceptions (and misperceptions) that hold different campus constituencies apart -- and to discover the experiences, beliefs and human qualities that connect them. The result, Who Am I in This Picture? comprises six 12 x 30 portrait-triptychs installed around campus. Nine of the portraits were collaboratively created paintings, and nine were photographs; each includes quotes from interviews Ewald and Cook conducted with the sitters. The collaborative process is documented with photographs, interviews with the participants, and illustrations of the completed works. Richard Powell s essay discusses the artists work in the framework of portraiture; Declan McGonagle situates the project in the context of collaborative art; and Rhonda Cobham-Sander writes about education at the beginning of the 21st century. Why this project is special, unique: The catalog reveals how an American institution, in particular an academic institution, functions at the beginning of the 21st century and examines how an artistic/community collaboration can work.

Who Am I in This Picture?: Amherst College Portraits With Brett Cook and Wendy Ewald

Betsy Siersma

Brett Cook

Amherst College Press

Lorsque Wendy Ewald est arrivée au cœur des Appalaches en 1975, elle a commencé un projet qui visait à révéler la vie, les rêves intimes et les peurs des écoliers locaux. Chargée de trouver des moyens authentiques de représenter la vie de ces enfants, elle a donné à chacun un appareil photo et les a interrogés sur leur enfance à la montagne. À travers ces transcriptions et photographies intrigantes, nous découvrons la vie des familles vue à travers les yeux de leurs enfants: où la vie domestique et rurale est comprise avec une ouverture et une profondeur étonnantes. Dans Portraits and Dreams, les réalités les plus mystérieuses de la vie - amour, perte, violence, mort, nouvelle vie - se font entendre à travers une découverte tout à fait nouvelle: la caméra. Nous apprenons l'éloquence et l'originalité avec lesquelles les enfants voient le monde et nous voyons une nouvelle façon généreuse d'engager les enfants dans les possibilités du médium photographique. Cette édition révisée et augmentée du livre désormais rare d'Ewald, publié pour la première fois en 1985 et intitulé «Un chef-d'œuvre américain», offre un accès à une vue différente et élargie du sud rural sur une période de 35 ans, et comprend des images et des histoires contemporaines par huit des étudiants de la publication originale.

PORTRAITS AND DREAMS

MACK BOOKS

The Devil is leaving his Cave

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