Photography Strategies for the K-5 Classroom
November 8th, 2010
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.
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Hi Teresa,
Bella( my grand-niece) and I have a good time. I showed her the pieces that Flora had shown us. At first Bella was not too interested in my questions. I guess she did not like being called a guinea pig. However, she soon got into the sprit and had a lot of comments to make. We then went to the family room where she got to play with the pieces she saw in the galleries. Of course she loved the blue bed. I want to make a dream bed with her soon. She went to her art class that evening. There she made a butterfly drawing like she had done in the family room. Thanks again for the wonderful training. See you soon!
We HAD a good time. Sorry for the grammar.
So glad you had a good time, and that Bella enjoyed discussing works of art with you!