Current participants of the Art & Language Arts Summer Seminar return to the Getty Center to learn about photography from many different angles (pun intended)!
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Teachers learn about the depth and breadth of the Getty’s collection of photographs—over 100,000 and going strong!
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We’re on our way to the award-winning exhibition Engaged Observers: Documentary Photography since the Sixties.
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Family portraits in the exhibition can connect to students’ photographs of their families.
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Teachers find a variety of textures in still life photographs.
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Participants pose outside of the Photo Study Room, where pictures by Dorothea Lange, Diane Arbus, Robert Capa, and other photography masters were displayed around the room for close inspection.
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Photographer Luther Gerlach explains how light passes through a lens while standing behind a humongous camera.
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4th-5th grade teachers use the pinhole cameras they created out of paint and coffee cans.
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In the Central Garden, teacher Gabriela Vielma was excited to try out her new camera.
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Teacher Trish Birk gets creative with the positioning of her pinhole camera.
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Teacher Marisela Reyes places her camera on the ground for an interesting angle.
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After taking pictures in the garden, we gather to see the images that formed on the light-sensitive paper.
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K-3rd grade teachers got creative with cyanotypes. They depicted a variety of subjects by drawing on acetate placed over light-sensitive paper.
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Teachers drew a variety of basic shapes to make ABC books, to illustrate landscapes, and more!
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While waiting for their prints to dry, teachers made books on which they will affix their images.
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Teachers created books with accordion folds or books with pages that opened like flaps.
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This teacher will soon affix her cyanotypes onto her book about bodies of water.
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This teacher connected art and science by using cyanotypes to depict a life cycle.
The next workshop for current Art & Language Arts participants is coming up on Saturday, November 6, 2010. Getty staff can’t wait to spend the day discussing photographs and engaging in art-making activities related to photographic processes.
Bowl with Sugar Cubes, André Kertész, 1928. © Estate of André Kertész
Teachers will be introduced to the photography collection by museum educators and curators. They’ll also have a rare opportunity to spend time with photographs in our collection in the intimate setting of our photo study room. Some of our “greatest hits” by master photographers will be on view in a room just for us! So exciting!
Current Art & Language Arts participants: What would you like to know about photography? We can discuss your questions at the workshop.
Current and former participants: How do you already incorporate photography in your curriculum?
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