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Students learn how to formulate relevant, self-generated questions based on interests and/or needs that can be investigated.
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Photography - Women's Rugby Game | Artopia

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Photography - Women's Rugby Game | Artopia
BILL FRAKES A Closer Look Apparently the fact that the players in this rugby game were wearing dresses didn't diminish the intensity of the rivalry between the teams. Photographer Bill Frakes has...
Photography - Tetons and the Snake River | Artopia

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Photography - Tetons and the Snake River | Artopia
ANSEL ADAMS A Closer Look Tetons and the Snake River is one of Ansel Adams' great western landscape photographs. The image seems to go on to infinity, absolutely sharp and clear. It is interesting to...
Photography - Rosa | Artopia

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Photography - Rosa | Artopia
CHESTER HIGGINS, JR. A Closer Look Rosa is a picture within a picture. At first we see a person in costume, make-up and sunglasses. But there is another picture. Reflected in the lens of the glasses...
Photography - Parisian Boulevard | Artopia

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Photography - Parisian Boulevard | Artopia
LOUIS DAGUERRE A Closer Look This Daguerreotype of a Parisian Boulevard is an early experiment by Louis Daguerre. His pictures required a very long exposure time. That's why the street seems empty -...
Photography - Icy Night | Artopia

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Photography - Icy Night | Artopia
ALFRED STIEGLITZ A Closer Look Icy Night has many of the qualities of the sort of photograph Alfred Stieglitz and his fellow “Pictorialists” liked to take. They believed the photographer could shape...
Photography: Harvest of Death | Artopia

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Photography: Harvest of Death | Artopia
TIMOTHY O'SULLIVAN A Closer Look Who are the men in this photograph? In Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, Alexander Gardner describes them as Confederate soldiers. However, there is...
Photography - Couple in Raccoon Coats | Artopia

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Photography - Couple in Raccoon Coats | Artopia
JAMES VAN DER ZEE A Closer Look James Van Der Zee once said, "I tried to pose each person in such a way as to tell a story." In the studio he used elaborate backdrops and scenery but in this...
Photography - Cotton Sharecropper Family | Artopia

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Photography - Cotton Sharecropper Family | Artopia
DOROTHEA LANGE A Closer Look Dorothea Lange has been called the greatest American documentary photographer, in part because her pictures gave dignity to people who had lost everything. This family may...
Photography - Copia # 16 | Artopia

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Photography - Copia # 16 | Artopia
BRIAN ULRICH A Closer Look This picture, like all the photos in the Copia series, is candid, meaning it isn't posed. Brian Ulrich shot the series using a waist-level viewfinder so that he did not have...