Figure 1.--Our goal in visiting British prep schools was to creat a realistic mosaic of prep school life. We did not want the idealized, posed images one sees in schol prospectuses. Rather we wanted to capture what actually transpired at the schools every day. A complication here was that our presence and cameras imposed a rarity that tended to attract their attention. And of course we wanted them to go about their normal activities and ignore us. This was a little complicated in that our visits were normaslly one-day events. So we attempted to develop a raport with the children to put them at ease. This normaly developed in morning break where we got lots of questions about our project and equioment.

Our goal in visiting British prep schools was to creat a realistic mosaic of prep school life. We did not want the idealized, posed images one sees in schol prospectuses. Rather we wanted to capture what actually transpired at the schools every day. We what to record what the childrenb actually experienced during the school day. A complication here was that our presence and cameras imposed a rarity that tended to attract their attention. And of course we wanted them to go about their normal activities and ignore us. This was a little complicated in that our visits were normaslly one-day events. So we attempted to develop a raport with the children to put them at ease. This normaly developed in morning break where we got lots of questions about our project and equioment. And I got questiins about America. We found that the children quickly got used to the cameras after the first few photograohs were taken and we could get down to the serious business of compiling realistic photographic essays.

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