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Instructional Video3:49
Tate

Bruce Davidson's Subway | TateShots

K - 11th
In the 1980s the Subway in New York was poorly run, poorly lit and considered dangerous. Photographer Bruce Davidson decided to head underground to embark on what he called 'a voyage of discovery'. In Davidson's own words, 'I wanted to...
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Instructional Video6:04
Tate

Taryn Simon – 'We're All Ghosts of Another Time' | TateShots

K - 11th
American photographer Taryn Simon talks about her Tate Modern exhibition, 'A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters'. Simon mixes photography and text in a series works that chart family bloodlines. At the heart of each group of...
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Instructional Video3:20
Curated Video

Why people never smiled in old photos

9th - 11th
Early portraits looked pretty grim. A lot of old photos from the 19th and early 20th century are fraught with doom and gloom—and on the occasion the literal dead face. That led to the popular belief that people just did not smile in old...
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Instructional Video4:40
Curated Video

Color film was built for white people. Here's what it did to dark skin.

9th - 11th
The unfortunate history of racial bias in photography. Subscribe today: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO For decades, the color film available to consumers was built for white people. The chemicals coating the film simply weren't adequate to capture...
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Instructional Video3:00
The Met

Installation Tour of Art of Native America 7/9: Shoulder Bag

6th - 11th
Part 7 of 9: Join Gaylord Torrence and Brian Vallo for a closer look at, and in-depth commentary on, a selection of highlights in the exhibition Art of Native America: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection....
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Instructional Video8:01
The Art Assignment

The Art History of the Selfie | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios

9th - 12th
Artists have been taking selfies since the dawn of photography. Cameras allowed people to capture their own image in a way that had never been possible in all of human history, and today most of us carry these magical devices in our...
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Instructional Video3:17
Great Big Story

William Wegman: The Art of Weimaraners

12th - Higher Ed
Dive into the world of William Wegman, renowned as 'The Dog Photographer', and explore his 45-year journey with Weimaraners, transforming them into artful characters and landscapes.
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Lesson Plan6:21
TED-Ed

From Aaliyah to Jay-Z: Captured Moments in Hip-hop History

4th - 8th
To take "the definitive portrait of that person in that moment" is the quest of photographer and hip-hop historian Jonathan Mannion. In this short video, Mannion details his dedication to his art and the process he goes through to catch...
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Instructional Video2:58
TED-Ed

How to Take a Great Picture

9th - 12th
Have you ever wondered how a camera uses light to capture an image? Carolina Molinari, photographer and educator, demonstrates the working parts of a camera through an animation which shows how the aperture, ISO sensitivity and shutter...

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