Photos & Video

Books about Photography & Cameras

• Seeing Things: A Kid's Guide to Looking at Photographs. Joel Meyerowitz. Aperture, 2016
• Go Photo! An Activity Books for Kids. Alice Proujansky. Aperture, 2016
• Selfie: The Changing Face of Self Portraits. Susie Brooks, Wayland, 2017
• George Eastman and the Kodak Camera. Jennifer Fandel. Illustrated by George Purcell. Capstone Press, 2007
• Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide. Isabel Quintero. Illustrated by Zeke Pena. Harry N. Abrams, 2018.

Digital Resources about Photography & Video-Making

• Using Instagram to Teach Poetry, Edutopia (July 8, 2019) - Short, free verse poems paired with an image from Instagram
• Digital Connections Document - apps, online resources, activities, and more
• Learn about Alice Guy-Blache, the first woman filmmaker

History of Photography & Video Cameras

• History of Photography Timeline - viewed through Photography Collections at Harvard University
• An Illustrated History of Photography
• The History of Photography: Pinholes and Polaroids to Digital Images
• The History of Photography
• The History of Video Tape and Camera
• Tech Time Machine: The Evaluation of Video
• What is a Camera Obscura?
• What is a Daguerreotype?

Interesting facts:

• The first photographic process--heliography--was invented by Nicephore Niepce around 1824
• First color photograph, Louis Ducos de Hauron, 1869
• Polaroid's first self-developing camera went on sale in Boston at Christmas time, 1948

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