Explains that the best way for students to learn to recognize high-quality portrait photography is to study as many good examples as possible. Provides examples of portrait photography by David Hockney, Dorothea Lange, Edward Steichen, and Thomas M. Easterly in order to demonstrate different portrait styles and techniques and to promote…

Presents an instructional resource where upper elementary, middle, and high school students can explore the photographs of Tseng Kwong Chi to understand the idea of truthfulness and the artistic nature of photographs. Offers background information on Chi and his vision. Includes strategies for examining and discussing the photographs. (CMK)

Discusses photographing children's art for four uses: (1) a scrapbook of student work; (2) the students' portfolios; (3) a sample greeting card to encourage parents to use their child's artwork for cards; and (4) personal note cards for the teacher. (CMK)

Alternative curriculum strategies can be used to conduct an effective photography program without the expense usually associated with a darkroom. Three methods can be used to eliminate the need for a darkroom facility: outside vendors, an emulsion that can be user-processed without access to a darkroom (slide or transparency film), and emulsions…

In a brief introduction, this guide identifies some of the career opportunities open to competent airbrush artists and indicates the most frequent users (technical illustrators, photo retouchers, commercial artists and designers) of the airbrush technique. The guide includes objectives for teaching airbrush, equipment and materials needed,…

This creative photography quinmester curriculum guide was written to enable the student to use photography in a wide range of art forms. The student will gain an understanding of how photography is used in the fields of commercial and fine art. The introduction to photography as a unique art form includes a brief history of creative and…

Verbal contextual information affected photography and nonphotography students' performance on semantic retention tests. For example, correct titles aided the formation and retention of accurate memories, while erroneous titles misled students into remembering meanings that had relatively little to do with what was actually pictured in the…

This theme issue of the journal "Exploring" covers the topic of "memories" and describes an exhibition at San Francisco's Exploratorium that ran from May 22, 1998 through January 1999 and that contained over 40 hands-on exhibits, demonstrations, artworks, images, sounds, smells, and tastes that demonstrated and depicted the biological,…

Described is a three-day camp program where sixth-grade students were led to see the interrelatedness of various art forms--to realize that the design elements and principles working within art are related to the basic organizational tools of creative writing and music. (Author/KC)

Describes how to teach students about art concepts during a photography lesson. Explains that students learn about concepts such as: how to take a sharp picture, how to fill the frame and leading lines, and how to focus on point of view in photographs. Includes learning objectives for the lesson. (CMK)

Focuses on the use of the art technique called watergraph in which students use watercolor to paint over photographs. Provides three examples of how teachers used this process with their students, including creating self portraits inspired by the work of Edgar Degas. (CMK)

Describes a project for middle-school students where they create self-portraits. Explains that the teacher photographs each student who is asked to make an exaggerated facial expression for the picture. To complete the self-portraits, students select an art postcard and "borrow" ideas from the artist's style. (CMK)

Today the chemical processing of film is being replaced by a virtual digital darkroom. Digital image storage makes new levels of consistency possible because its nature is less volatile and more mutable than traditional photography. The potential of digital imaging is great, but issues of disk storage, computer speed, camera sensor resolution,…

This text serves as a guide covering basic aspects of television production leading to complete production of video yearbooks and news shows. Each lesson is divided into eight sections: (1) objectives; (2) vocabulary; (3) lesson text, which encourages production related ideas on practical application as well as theory; (4) review questions; (5)…