Photography

Non-Fiction

Bidner, Jenni.
The Kids' Guide to Digital Photography : How to Shoot, Save, Play with & Print Your Digital photos.


Gold, Rebecca.
What a Job!
Introduces various types of photography by presenting profiles of six contemporary photographers: Jose Ramon Garcia, Norbert Wu, Darlyne Murawski, Annie Griffiths Belt, Art Wolfe, and Nina Crews.

Hodgkins, Fran.
Photographers.
Introduces the responsibilities, equipment, necessary schooling, and different kinds of people who work as photographers.

Johnson, Neil.
National Geographic Photography Guide for Kids.
Combining his own photos with simple diagrams, easy-to-read text, and striking images from National Geographic photographers, the author teaches youngsters how to think like a photographer and get the kinds of pictures they want.

Kramer, Stephen / photographs by Warren Faidley. Eye of the Storm : Chasing Storms with Warren Faidley.
Storm chaser Warren Faidley discusses the techniques, dangers, and difficulties of photographing lightning, tornadoes, and hurricanes.

Martin, Jacqueline Briggs / illustrated by Mary Azarian. Snowflake Bentley.
A biography of a self-taught scientist who photographed thousands of individual snowflakes in order to study their unique formations offers insight into one scientist's perseverance and a look at the wonders of nature.

Pflueger, Lynda.
Mathew Brady : Photographer of the Civil War.
Recounts the life and accomplishments of pioneering photographer Mathew Brady, whose work left a pictorial record of the people and events of his times, most notably the Civil War.

Sullivan, George.
Picturing Lincoln : Famous Photographs That Popularized the President.
We all carry around pictures of Lincoln—on our pennies and five-dollar bills. These are among countless images created by engravers and other artists who copied, by hand, portraits that Lincoln posed for in a photographer's studio. This engaging and attractive book depicts the five most famous Lincoln photographs and their numerous reproductions, which appeared, often dramatically and even comically altered, everywhere from newspapers and magazines to flyers, postcards, and campaign buttons. George Sullivan tells the fascinating story behind each image, providing insight about the early photographic process as well as a unique perspective on the political career of our sixteenth president.

Thomas, William Davis.
Wildlife Photographer.
Information on wildlife photographers, discussing the hard work and dangers involved.


Wallace, Joseph / foldout illustration by Toby Welles. The Camera.
Introduces the development of cameras from the first daguerreotypes in the 1800s, to George Eastman's Kodak, to the modern digital camera, and explains the technological innovations and scientific discoveries.

Fiction (Readers)

Kalz, Jill / illustrated by Ji Sun Lee.
Galen's Camera.
READER KalzJ
Young Galen views ordinary objects from a different perspective through the eye of his camera.

Levinson, Nancy Smiler / illustrated by Valeria Petrone.
Say Cheese!
READER LeviN
A monkey keeps trying to take a photograph of a giraffe couple, but the other animals insist on pushing their way into the picture.

Wallace, Karen.
A Day at Seagull Beach.
READER WallK
A seagull flies over the sea looking for something before returning to its nest.

Fiction (Picture Books)

Bridwell, Norman.
Clifford Grows Up.
PICTURE BridN
As she looks through a photo album, Emily Elizabeth reminisces about Clifford's puppy hood.

Perkins, Lynne Rae.
Pictures from Our Vacation.
PICTURE PerkL
Given a camera that takes and prints tiny pictures just before leaving for the family farm in Canada, a young girl records a vacation that gets off to a slow start, but winds up being a family reunion filled with good memories.

Scotton, Rob.
Russell and the Lost Treasure.
PICTURE ScotR
Russell, the fluffed-out sheep with the impossibly long, striped wool hat attempts to discover the Lost Treasure of Frogsbottom. After inventing a Super-Duper Treasure Seeker, he searches high and low until he stumbles upon the buried chest down a long and winding hole. Once the box is opened, Russell is dismayed to find that it contains only old and useless stuff, including a camera that's older than my dad! But the camera works, and soon Russell is taking joyous snapshots of his extended family.

Weiss, Monica / illustrated by Rose Mary Berlin.
Snap! Charlie Gets the Whole Picture : Getting the Main Idea.
PICTURE WeisM
While taking pictures of his sister for a photography contest, Charlie learns about the relationship between parts and wholes.

Wiesner, David.
Flotsam.
PICTURE WiesD
The story of what happens when a camera becomes a piece of flotsam.

Juvenile Fiction

Brinson, Cynthia L.
Seeing Sugar.
FIC BrinC
Kate Martin thinks fourth grade is going to be the best year ever . . . until Sugar Rose Simms walks in, with her long blond hair and sweet Southern accent. Not only does Kate lose her prized front row seat to the new girl, but she finds out she needs glasses! Kate isn't happy about becoming a "four eyes," but she's astonished to discover what she's been missing. When she looks through her glasses and feels like she's seeing for the first time, Kate grabs a camera to capture everything. The details in her photos surprise her-especially a shot of a lonely Sugar Rose looking like she needs a friend.


Gray, Dianne E. / illustrations by Stephanie Cooper.
Tomorrow, the River.
FIC GrayD
In 1896, fourteen-year-old Megan joins her sister and family on their steamboat for the summer riding up the Mississippi River towards St. Paul, Minnesota, and through all of their adventures, Megan realizes what is her "true calling."

Jennings, Patrick.
The Beastly Arms.
FIC JennP
Eleven-year-old Nickel, a boy with a great affinity for both animals and photography, moves into an apartment building run by the strange and mysterious Mr. Beastly and discovers a secret about the other tenants.

Pfeffer, Susan Beth.
Portraits of Little Women. Amy's Story.
FIC PfefS
Because she desperately wants to have her picture taken, ten-year-old Amy finds a way to accumulate the necessary five dollars but then decides to spend it in another way.

Pinkney, Andrea Davis.
Hold Fast to Dreams.
FIC PinkA
Moving to an all-white community, twelve-year-old Deirdre resists her younger sister's inclinations to "act white" and witnesses something through her camera lens that threatens to devastate her entire family.

Movie
The way things work. Photography
A video based on the book by David Macaulay.
Mammoth Island residents want to memorialize the winner of their annual golf tournament with a portrait, so a young Islander begins to experiment with how light, lenses and chemicals can be used to produce a photograph.

Web Sites
Flickr Photo Sharing
http://www.flickr.com/
Flickr is an online photo management and sharing application. Photos can be uploaded from your desktop, sent by email or camera phone. Collections, sets, and tags can be used to organize photos. Groups and privacy controls enable you to share your photos. You can make cards, photo books, framed prints and DVDs, etc. and get updates from family and friends.

A History of Photography http://www.rleggat.com/photohistory/
The history, the people and the development of photography from Dr Robert Leggat.

Photo Tips and Projects http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=38/492&pq-locale=en_US
Learn how to take better photographs from Kodak. Site features projects, shooting tips, and photo stories.

The Pinhole Gallery
http://pinhole.org/
This site provides information about the pinhole camera and photography - an inexpensive means to introduce people of all ages to the principles of photography. A pinhole camera is easy to build and the camera can be made from almost anything.


Crafts

How to Make a Very Simple Origami Photo Frame (http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Very-Simple-Origami-Photo-Frame)


Need a picture frame but don't want to buy one? Make one!
Steps:

1. Find a square piece of paper. If it's colored on one side, put the colored side down.
 
2. Fold the paper in half length-wise, then width-wise, then unfold it all the way.

3. Fold all the corners to the center.
4. Turn it over and repeat. Make sure on this step, one of the pieces isn't fully folded--this is how your frame will stand up.

5. Turn it back over, then fold them backwards.

6. Pushed back

Pulled out
There, the frame is finished! You can fold it the top part of the pieces that you folded back, though. If you do and don't pull it, it looks like lace, but if you do, it looks 3D.

Tips
• Don't use construction paper. It doesn't turn out as good as if you used notebook or printer paper.

Marvelous Magnetic Frames (http://jas.familyfun.go.com/arts-and-crafts?page=CraftDisplay&craftid=11431)

Marvelous Magnetic Frames

This clever craft multitasks as a refrigerator magnet, a picture frame, and a work of art. It also provides a busload (or planeload!) of fun on a dreary afternoon.


Craft Materials:

Paper
Colored pencils and crayons
Scissors
Adhesive magnetic sheets
Craft knife
Photographs or digital images
Scotch tape

Time needed: About 2 to 3 Hours
1. On the paper, have your child draw a design with lots of places for small images, such as a house, bus, or plane.

2. Cut out enough magnetic sheeting to back your child's artwork and attach it to the drawing. Cut out the design. Use a craft knife to cut out the photo holes (a parent's job).

3. Snip the pictures to fit behind the holes and tape them in place.

More crafts...
If you're interested in photography, you'll have a blast exploring these great photo crafts and activities for kids.

A picture is worth a thousand words, but when you add creative techniques to photography, there's no telling how much your picture can say. One-of-a-kind frames, interesting camera angles, and drawn portions of your photographs open up new ways to create art with your camera.

Explore all these cool photo craft activities and then dream up your own ideas.
http://home.howstuffworks.com/photo-crafts-and-activities.htm

Created by Ms. Jean