Recollections of Family Photographs from Five Generations

ISBN-13: 9783639150148 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 164 str.

Ed D. Kristin Baxter

Opis

Snapshots, broken toys, high school diaries, a locketwith secret compartments for tiny photographs,well-read love letters, a piece of sea glass,shoeboxes filled with bits of ephemera from dailylife. These were some of the objects that were partof a 2001 exhibition entitled "recollections" at MacyGallery, Teachers College Columbia University in NewYork City. It was through this exhibition that Iexplored how objects provoke narratives in families.As a consequence of the exhibition, there seemed tobe a need for further understanding of howindividuals assign meanings to their treasuredobjects, particularly family snapshots. This appearedto be a worthy investigation as art educators debatethe rationale of using images from visual culture assites of inquiry in curriculum design. This bookpresents the findings of a narrative inquiry thatrelied on art-practice-as-research methodologies. Artand museum educators will find this book compellingas they come to understand how family photographs maybe used to nurture learners who recognize how theirpersonal narratives give structure to their lives andthrough which connections to broader culturalcontexts are made evident.

O autorze

(born 1971, New York City) earned degrees from New York
University, Case Western Reserve University, and Teachers College
Columbia University. She has worked as an art educator in museums
and schools. Currently, she is Assistant Professor of Art at
Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.