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Secret Games: Collaborative Works with Children 1969-1999

1 review
Wendy Ewald, Adam D. Weinberg, ...

Scalo Publishers, 2000

Simply amazing
I was fortunate enough to see an exhibition of Wendy Ewald's work two years ago, and it completely changed the way I look at photography. Some accuse her of exploiting children (almost all of 'her' work is either collaboration with children or the work of the children she's taught), but I have to disagree. Rather, I think she's given a voice to children (most of whom are from low income ...

I Dreamed I Had a Girl in My Pocket: The Story of an Indian Village

2 reviews
Wendy Ewald, Catherine Chermayeff, ...

W. W. Norton & Company, 1996

A Wonderful Book
I Dreamed I Had a Girl in My Pocket is one of the best non-fiction works that I have picked up in recent memory. It was so wonderful it made me cry at its beauty. Ms. Ewald traveled to India to a remote village where foreigners are few and far between. There, she took photos of the children of the village, many of whom are either untouchables or close to it, and illustrated their pictures with ...

Wendy Ewald: Towards A Promised Land

Steidl/Artangel, 2006

For more than 30 years, Wendy Ewald has put cameras in the hands of children all over the world and helped them record their dreams and realities in images and words. Towards a Promised Land documents her work with 22 children new to the British seaside town of Margate. Some arrived fleeing countries afflicted by war, poverty or political strife, others by following their families from one town to the next. Over 18 months, Ewald photographed ...

Postmodernism: A Virtual Discussion
Maxwell Anderson, Jennifer Gonzalez, ...

The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum/The Center for Art and Visual Culture, UMBC, 2002

What is postmodernism and is it a useful concept for understanding American art and visual culture of the past 40 years? When and to what extent did modernism wane as a viable force in American art? How have the various liberation movements, from civil rights to feminism, influenced American art and culture and contributed to the rejections of the modernist ethos? How has globalism changed American art and culture? How have the new technologies ...

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

3 reviews
Wendy Ewald, Alexandra Lightfoot

Beacon Press, 2002

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 ...

Wendy Ewald: American Alphabets
Wendy Ewald

Scalo Publishers, 2005

In this artist?s book, Wendy Ewald (Secret Games), a conceptual photographer, investigates the ability of language to create barriers or alliances between groups according to gender, age, and race. In collaboration with children she created four alphabets: a Spanish alphabet with English-as-a-Second-Language students in North Carolina, an African-American alphabet with students at an elementary school in Cleveland, a White-Girls alphabet at a ...

White: Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art
David Roediger, Patricia Williams, ...

Center for Art and Visual Culture, UMBC, 2003

Over the past 20 years, the cultural and scholarly discourse around race has exploded to include the study of whiteness and white privilege, representing a radical shift in the way we think and talk about race in the United States. Since the advent of the modern civil rights movement, people of color have usually been responsible for leading the debate and discussion about race and racism, forced to evaluate the status of their race in relation ...

Wendy Ewald In Peace and Harmony: Carver Portraits
Edwin Slipek, Ashley Kistler, ...

Visual Arts Center of Richmond, 2006

Kentucky, South Africa, the Columbian Andes--photographer Wendy Ewald has collaborated with children all over the world, but she has not always been able to display her work where the members of those childrensí communities were bound to see it. In Peace and Harmony documents Ewaldís first public art installation, one on which she worked with a group of second, third, fourth and fifth graders at George Washington Carver Elementary School in ...

Portraits and Dreams

1 review
Wendy Ewald

Writers & Readers Publishing, 1985

Wonderful Pictures!
This B+W folio contains 100s of photos and stories of the Appalachians, most written by the young adults who did the photography! It's a rare glimpse into family life in the hills! The photos are well done, and convey a sense of innocence and reality. The text is written on an adult level; interesting and relavant. This book has aged well, and is still representative of this locality. Worthwhile, ...

The Best Part of Me: Children Talk About Their Bodies in Pictures and Words

5 reviews
M. Tingley

Little, Brown Young Readers, 2002

Photos that touch your heart
My wife, Marilyn, did a Best Part of Me project with one of the classrooms she consults with. The children who wrote and the shildren and adults who saw the photos and the writing about them were engaged. Wendy Ewald is an amazing person who uses a camera as a way to learn.

Photoworks in Progress : Constructing Identity
Wendy Ewald

Exhibitions International, 1998

The contemporary work of photographers Reineke Dijkstra, Wendy Ewald and Pauls Seawright is presented here under the critical context of identity and youth.

Magic Eyes: Scenes from an Andean Childhood
Wendy Ewald

Bay Press (WA), 1992

photos and oral history, Columbia, tr Ewald

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