Artist Post #3
September 19, 2010
Wendy Ewald
Relation: The main relation between Wendy Ewald's work and my own lies in her project called "Literacy through Photography." The theme in her work and my own is similar. We both want to help raise awareness for a youth oriented issue through the art of photography. In Ewald's case, LTP urges children to explore their world through photography and then promotes pairing writing with their images. The writing is used to help literacy in children, and the photography is used as a way for the children and teachers to see into each other's lives. Since 1992, in Durham, North Carolina, Ewald has held LTP workshops every year to further this project.
Bio: Although I chose the Literacy for Photography project to relate to my theme, almost all of Ewald's work has dealt with helping teachers, children, and families in locations all over the world including Columbia, India, South Africa, Holland, Mexico, and the United States. In all of her projects with children, she always encourages the children to work on documenting their family and their life. Ewald sometimes writes on the negatives the children took herself, making the viewer think about who the real artist was... the child who took the photograph or the observer who added the text. Her list of accomplishments, awards, and exhibitions is incredibly impressive.
Ewald Quotes:
"The only thing that should move is this finger right here. You have to make a decision about what you want in your picture to be the most important thing, and which you want to be in focus. You want to be the most important thing?"
"I am an artist and I need to see pictures that show me what the world is like. And the way to get those pictures is by constructing a situation in which... in which I teach, and the product of that teaching are the images."
Source: Brown, Jeffery. "Online Newshour." PBS, 07 Mar 2002. Web. 19 Sep 2010..
Links:
Gallery Representation
Interview
Artist's LTP Blog
Artist's Website: Coming Soon
(Note: All images in this blog post are from Literacy Through Photography Workshops- the photographs were taken by participants and the text was added by Ewald.)
Wendy Ewald
Relation: The main relation between Wendy Ewald's work and my own lies in her project called "Literacy through Photography." The theme in her work and my own is similar. We both want to help raise awareness for a youth oriented issue through the art of photography. In Ewald's case, LTP urges children to explore their world through photography and then promotes pairing writing with their images. The writing is used to help literacy in children, and the photography is used as a way for the children and teachers to see into each other's lives. Since 1992, in Durham, North Carolina, Ewald has held LTP workshops every year to further this project.
Bio: Although I chose the Literacy for Photography project to relate to my theme, almost all of Ewald's work has dealt with helping teachers, children, and families in locations all over the world including Columbia, India, South Africa, Holland, Mexico, and the United States. In all of her projects with children, she always encourages the children to work on documenting their family and their life. Ewald sometimes writes on the negatives the children took herself, making the viewer think about who the real artist was... the child who took the photograph or the observer who added the text. Her list of accomplishments, awards, and exhibitions is incredibly impressive.
Ewald Quotes:
"The only thing that should move is this finger right here. You have to make a decision about what you want in your picture to be the most important thing, and which you want to be in focus. You want to be the most important thing?"
"I am an artist and I need to see pictures that show me what the world is like. And the way to get those pictures is by constructing a situation in which... in which I teach, and the product of that teaching are the images."
Source: Brown, Jeffery. "Online Newshour." PBS, 07 Mar 2002. Web. 19 Sep 2010.
Gallery Representation
Interview
Artist's LTP Blog
Artist's Website: Coming Soon
(Note: All images in this blog post are from Literacy Through Photography Workshops- the photographs were taken by participants and the text was added by Ewald.)
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