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After speaking with kindergarten teachers Shelby Jordan Kline at RCES and Carole Kaufman in the Bronx, Ms. Marshall approached the Polaroid Corporation to ask for technical assistance. Through a program (since discontinued) Polaroid supplied four instant cameras and 20 rolls of film to each school.
The project, which continued over the second half of the 1988-89 school year, involved the students taking photographs of 10 different specific assignments. They ranged from self-portraits, family portraits, the view from each child’s window to more creative assignments like a letter shape (found in the world, not printed), something for other children to see, and “your choice.”
The young kindergartners were anxious at first about the responsibility of the assignments, Mrs. Kline said. “I saw their self-esteem skyrocket. When I gave them the camera and said, ‘Here, go take a picture,’ they couldn’t believe it.” Then, each student described the picture he had taken, in his own words.
Each student created their own book of pictures and words, with assistance from Eleanor Katz’s seventh grade class at RCES. The older students worked one-on-one with the kindergartners, asking them questions about the pictures and writing down their responses.
The books were then exchanged with the other school, and each stu
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