Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Seeing-Beyond-Sight.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/6/2007 Seeing Beyond Sight Transcript Since the early 1990s, there has been a growing interest — indeed, something of a movement — in teaching young people to use photography as an artistic means to express their unique perspectives, as well as to document their […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Dance-Dance-Revolution.mp3 Author Laurie Taylor Air Date 5/15/2003 Dance, Dance, Revolution Transcript Despite all our knowledge about vitamins, foods, and exercise, so many of us are not eating or exercising the right way. Because of our poor habits, childhood obesity and other health problems are on the rise. Luckily, though, some […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Allen-Sisters-Photographers.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/24/2002 The Allen Sisters Transcript If you’re driving in Northwestern Massachusetts this fall, be sure to go up to Deerfield, a village that hasn’t changed much for the past three hundred years. It was one of the centers of the Arts and Crafts Movement […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Labor-Day-and-Lewis-Hines-Photos.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/2/2002 Labor Day and Lewis Hine Transcript Early in the 20th century, one of the more dangerous artistic careers was photographing the working conditions of American children, in our factories and mines, on the streets and in the packing plants. And no one took […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Boy-with-a-Camera-Jacques-Henri-Lartigue-1.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/13/2002 Boy with a Camera Transcript It’s the birthday today of one of the world’s great photographers, Jacques-Henri Lartigue. He was, most certainly, the world’s greatest child photographer. Lartigue was born in Paris in 1894, the second son of a prosperous family. Jacques-Henri’s father […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Children-of-the-Depression-in-Photos.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/27/2002 Children of the Depression Transcript The facts are still staggering, as Kathleen Thompson and Hilary Mac Austin remind us in their new book, Children of the Depression. In 1933, they write, “34 million men women and children were entirely without income. That was […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Maud-Tausey-Fangel.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 1/2/2002 Maud Tausey Fangel, Baby Painter Transcript In the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s — if you saw a sketch or portrait of a child on the cover of Ladies Home Journal or Woman’s Home Companion, or inside the magazines advertising, say, Colgate’s Talc Powder, […]
With Thanksgiving and the holiday season fast approaching, you might be thinking of having your young one’s official portrait taken. Here’s Koren Stembridge recalling her adventures at her baby’s first photo shoot.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Roman-Vishniac.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 4/19/2000 Roman Vishniac Transcript Perhaps it is the first warm day of spring, and the boys in the picture have pulled off their shirts and rolled up their trousers, forming themselves in a circle to to play a ball game–it could be dodge ball. […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Edward-Steichen.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/27/2000 Edward Steichen Transcript Edward Steichen, one of America’s most noted photographers, was born today in 1879 in Luxembourg, where he spent the first two years of his life before his family resettled in Michigan and his father went to work in the copper […]