Accordion Books

A visit to the sleepy historic conceptual art exhibition "Materializing SixYears" at the Brooklyn Museum afforded me the chance to look at artist Ed Ruscha's 1966 Every Building on the Sunset Strip, an accordion book that recorded in black-and-white photographs, with written labels identifying the housing blocks and businesses.   I was thinking how fun it would be to give kids cameras on a neighborhood walk to discover our school community, and produce a similar book.