Chapter 4: Revealing the World with a Digital Gallery

by Kathy Williams

Get the images: digital photos, scanned prints, or internet

 

People still like still pictures, even though we have all this video now

History of photography
- started taking photo galleries of depression
- Life Magazine was big in terms of bringing images to the masses

Advantages of making a website gallery
- critical thinking involved in selecting photos
- must use editing software
- creator must learn about

Story of Amy Kelley, who taught German, using a digital gallery to help her with her teaching
- kids took pictures of each other
- they had to cut pieces out of each person's face and make a new face
- were studying parts of head, had to label them in their own language

Planning
- need to search and evaluate other online galleries
-- gave lots of names of famous artists
-- take pictures about not just of
-- do more than just document or record, reveal

Curating the exhibit
- decide on a style or visual design
- select image to represent a theme: architectural designs, music festival, patriotism, etc.

After planning move to production mode

Acquire basic materials: still photos, image scanner, photo editing softwawre, online

Select, import, arrange, layout

book on page 61
- walks you though using Macromedia Flash, doing this process