I am working with a BOCES library colleague to support an upcoming project of hers. Her students will be creating photographic self-portraits and then will be moving into more creative versions using collages and "absent" environments. She was looking to borrow books with "beautiful" portrait photographs to inspire and guide her young photographers.
Our library is loaning her "Let us now praise famous men" with its searing Depression photographs by Walker Evans, as well as "Children of the Great Depression", "Restless Spirit: the life and work of Dorothea Lange", and "Kids at work: Lewis Hine and the crusade against child labor." I think all of these selections will do a good job of illustrating portraits rooted in an environment that adds context to the image.
I also sent her a wonderful book of Romare Bearden collages to demonstrate how cut-photos might be integrated into creative portraits.
And lastly, I'll be sending her a link to the November edition of Smithsonian magazine which has a moving photo essay of a New York City photographer who taught young AIDS victims in Zambia how to take pictures.
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