Filling in my gaps

1. Evan- Intro, recap of main points of week before (2-3 minutes), responsibilities and roles of the photographer (2-3 minutes), examination of a few photographs (3-5minutes).

2. Meredith- Holocaust examination and the documentations behind it (5-10 minutes).

3. Chelsea- Documentation of genocide (I forget where Darfur? Rwanda? somewhere in Africa I believe 5-10 minutes)

4. Carolina- Will speak about the TRUTH of documentary photography and the authenticity of the event (5-10 minutes)

5. Brian-????

6. Joanna- Will speak about social documentary photography as a social investigation of personal expression, by applying concepts to Scott Schuman's Sartorialist Blog and Book. Will discuss:

• Bill Cunningham of NYT as predecessor
  
• technology enabling rapid exposure of photographer's work via blog
• reportage, as he visually accounts style movements in fashion capitals of the world.
• journalistic move to storytelling; he captures a person's story with one image.
• will show sartorialist blog through out talk (5-10 minutes). Quote...
  
  "On the surface it's about fashion, but when you really look at someone, it's also a window into that person's life," said Schuman (to be tied into act 2)
  

7. Mags-????

Brian, Joanna, and Mags- If each of you could post on the blog what you want to present to the class, that would be awesome so we are all on the same page.

After the class presentations, we will have the class take a 10 minute break at which time we will set up our stations for Act 2. Here, we will break the class up into three groups and they will visit each of our group stations to learn more about everyone's individual artist, era of examination, documented event, etc, that they studied. Each group should be able to speak for at least 10-15 minutes to each of their audiences. Remember we have three hours to do this so time is really not an issue. Again, here is what I have for every one's station topics (please correct and post if I am wrong):

Group 1
Carolina- Nan Golden
Joanna- Will take one photograph by Scott Schuman and ask each group to make up a story about the person in the photograph. Will tell them the truth about said person after they are done. (Can take a while if need be, every person could make up a story about a different subject and present there ideas to the group). Will show the veneer of objectivity and Schuman's style of photography's ability to aesthetisize all his subjects.

Mags-Mary Ellen Mark

Group 2
Meredith- Holocaust
Chelsea- Genocide
(Same topics as their presentations)

Group 3
Brian- Will bring in different cameras and examples of the different types of pictures each camera can take (hopefully these can be relevant documentary pictures if he can find some and the artists the took them)
Evan- Social and Civil Rights awareness, WeeGee, early work place employee/employer documentation.

Meeting tomorrow.......

Sounds great you two....it reminds me of an episode of The Office when they were celebrating Diversity Day......and it got inappropriate real quick. I loved it!

I was just sending this out as a reminder about our meeting around 5:45-6:00 tomorrow. I talked to Brian this evening and he will have his laptop with him and he said that everyone can bring pictures then if you have them. If not, then we can upload whatever we need to before our class on Wednesday.

I believe that the plan was to go over and bring our talking points tomorrow so we can all get a feel for what we are each speaking about and if you need to go over anything with group members, we would have an opportunity to do so at that time as well.

I will post this on the blog as well. I am looking forward to finishing this and being able to chill and get this out of the way for the semester........

Evan

Chelsea & Meredith's Act II / Last Act

Hi guys.
It's Chelsea and Meredith!

We just wanted to tell everyone a bit about what we are planning for our Act 2. We can formally introduce it, as well as answer any questions you guys might have about it, at the meeting on Monday. We just wanted to send it out now so everyone would have a heads up and so everyone's prepared.

I also sent this out to everyone through e-mail, just in case not everyone sees it here.

We wanted to do something that the entire class could all be involved in at once, as well as something fun that the rest of you guys could be involved in, too. Also, we thought it would be a good way to reinforce what the class had learned from our presentations, and see how well they were paying attention. ^_~

Hope you all like it. ^^


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LAST ACT:

(we would go after everyone else does their Act 2, so as to not take up too much time or detract from what you guys are doing. I think this should end up to be around a 30 to 35 minute game.)

Everyone in the class participates in the "Post-it Game." Group 2 members are the facilitators of the game, while the rest of the class become the players.

Step 1: Set-up.

Move all the chairs into a circle, with each player in a chair. Group 2 members will be outside of the circle.


Step 2: Group 2 members choose 4 roles, each, to be used.

Each member of Group 2 will choose 4 roles, relating to their Act 1 Presentation, and written on 4 individual post-it notes, to be assigned to the players. (Chelsea and Meredith will furnish the post-it notes.) For example, Chelsea's 4 roles to be assigned will be:

Brian Steidle, (photographer,);
Mia Farrow, (photographer,);
a Darfurian refugee;
and a member of the Janjaweed,(Arab militia.)


Step 3: The post-it notes are shuffled.


Step 4: The game begins.

A player will be chosen to start the game. Chelsea will put a post-it note, with the role to be played written on it, on the player's forehead.

The player with the post-it note on their forehead is encouraged to ask questions to help them figure out who they are, followed by everyone in the class offerring hints to help them figure out their identity. For example, if the role assigned to the player is Mia Farrow, the player with the post-it note on their forehead might ask, "Am I an actress?" Then the whole group shouts, "Yes!"

If the player wearing the post-it note is too shy to ask questions, anyone in the class can give them hints. For example, someone can shout, "You are an actress!"

Hopefully, each person with a role playing post-it note on their forehead will ask several questions about their identity, followed by everyone offering hints about their identity.

When the role player guesses their identity, they get a prize, and the game continues, clockwise, to the next player. For example, Evan will put a post-it note, with a new role to be played, on the next player's forehead.

The process repeats until everyone has played and received a prize.


The End.

Outline, lecture topics, and order of class presentations

Good evening all,

I trust that everyone had a good weekend as that all is just swell. So, some of us met in the cafeteria earlier this evening and we tossed around the topics that we wanted to speak about, the order of presentations, and a day and time for us to pull everything together before next Wednesday. I like how Chelsea put it...referred to each segment as an Act. So here is what we came up with:

The class presentations (Act 1) will be the portion where each of us will speak to the class for 5-10 minutes on some aspect of documentary, social documentary, the common place, human condition, objective vs subjective, truth, a specific artist(s) or photo)s) etc...... Each person is at liberty to speak about what they like just as long as it ties with the theme of our assignment. Here is what we came up with for a line up and order of presenters so far:

1. Evan- Intro, recap of main points of week before (2-3 minutes), responsibilities and roles of the photographer (2-3 minutes), examination of a few photographs (3-5minutes).

2. Meredith- Holocaust examination and the documentations behind it (5-10 minutes).

3. Chelsea- Documentation of genocide (I forget where Darfur? Rwanda? somewhere in Africa I believe 5-10 minutes)

4. Carolina- Will speak about the TRUTH of documentary photography and the authenticity of the event (5-10 minutes)

5. Brian-????

6. Joanna-????

7. Mags-????

Brian, Joanna, and Mags- If each of you could post on the blog what you want to present to the class, that would be awesome so we are all on the same page.

After the class presentations, we will have the class take a 10 minute break at which time we will set up our stations for Act 2. Here, we will break the class up into three groups and they will visit each of our group stations to learn more about everyone's individual artist, era of examination, documented event, etc, that they studied. Each group should be able to speak for at least 10-15 minutes to each of their audiences. Remember we have three hours to do this so time is really not an issue. Again, here is what I have for every one's station topics (please correct and post if I am wrong):

Group 1
Carolina- Nan Golden
Joanna- FSA
Mags-Mary Ellen Mark

Group 2
Meredith- Holocaust
Chelsea- Genocide
(Same topics as their presentations)

Group 3
Brian- Will bring in different cameras and examples of the different types of pictures each camera can take (hopefully these can be relevant documentary pictures if he can find some and the artists the took them)
Evan- Social and Civil Rights awareness, WeeGee, early work place employee/employer documentation.

Here we have the opportunity to be creative and show our "expertise" on the artists/events we researched. We can be creative with our little stations and have some fun with it.

Act 3, we will bring the class back together and have a little Q&A time where those students that payed attention can win some major swag (you all can give prizes for your correctly answered questions if you want to. I am for sure going to the dollar store or somewhere cheap and get a few corny/fun things to pass out). I figure that everyone can ask 2-3 questions here, if so inclined.

I am willing to type up a rundown/schedule of events for Chris that is due to him on Wednesday....but I need everyone to fill in the blanks where there are question marks above.

Also, we need to think of a time to meet back up for 30-45 minutes to go over everything and our final products (especially for the lectures) so that it runs smoothly. Can everyone do next Monday again at 5:45? As of now, I will be in the cafeteria then to meet for a short bit. I believe that Meredith and Chelsea said that they can make it too.

Good night,

Evan

Next week meetings

Hello all,

Okay so just to clarify, we are going to be meeting next Monday in the cafeteria at 5:45. During this meeting, we should start to go over our outline for our presentation and topics of discussion. I spoke with Chris after class submit and he said that a heads up of our plan would be great to get to him before we present (like a plan of the way the lecture will go, not necessarily all of the specifics of artists, small group topics, etc.....).

Chris also said that his lecture from next week will spill over to the first 45 minutes of our class lecture time becasue of the quanity of info and the movies he is showing us....just a heads up.

So when we meet on Monday, how's about everyone bring their talking points for their section of the class lecture portion of our project. Remember during your 5-10 minute individual presentation, you are at liberty to speak about whatever you want as long as it has to do with social documentary and the human condition. Feel free to include any PPT or other pictures or info you want to include.

See you all then and if there any questions or concerns, feel free to post and we can all discuss.

Evan

Sorry so late for this.........

Hey all, I really wanted to do this during last week but life has been real hectic.....

So here are the groups that we came up with to present information to each of the class groups:

Meredeth and Chelesa: War and the Holocost (photographers and images to go with)

Johanna, Mags, and Carolina: Johanna (FSA scholars) Mags (Mary Ellen Mark and it looks like one other photographer to focus on life on the streets) Carolina (I don't know what to put here)

Evan and Brian: Brian (will bring in different cameras for students to experience tools used to create images) Evan (will present photographers that caught civil rights and images from the workplace through history). We will create a display and include images that we want to show as well.

Each group will be responsible to create their own group mini display and educate each class group on their choices.

I beleive that Mags posted the previous comment about meeting tonight and working on the outline for the whole class presentation. I think that is a great idea so we can get started on what everyone wants to say and get some sort of plan of attack. I really wanted to talk about how social documentation has brought to light certian concerns and awareness through history. So in my presentation section, if i get time, I want to make a little slide show of some artists and photos to go with them while giving some history about there works. I am going to be there in the cafeteria as close to 5:45 as possible.

Evan

Homelessness part of the group presentation

Hi guys,
Since our last meeting we decided on some areas or aspects we will each represent for our group presentation. I've selected Homelessness/Street Photography. I've already researched Mary Ellen Marks and I will use her photographs of the homeless along with two other photographers that I've found to be inspiring to me in this area. I will introduce works of David Entrikin who worked on his homelessness exhibit in the Seattle area from around 2005 forward. Mary Ellen Marks photos are around the 1980s. Also, Chuck Ferris is another photographer who sparked my interest in this area. He is a part time photographer who lives and works in the San Francisco area and he started up his photography of the homeless in 2001 to present times.
My idea of how I would like to present this is by first visually capturing the class's vision in 3-D format by printing up my photos and pasting them on cardboard boxes in various sizes. I think this will bring the photographs alive and also help the class visualize the importance of these people and their untold and unwanted stories.
If I get any audio then I would like to present other photos with that audio.
I'm working on my outline for my part of the presentation so we can fit it in and have a good flow for our group presentation.
I look forward to seeing you guys at our next meeting before class on Wednesday (10-7)...I'm guessing this is where we should get our outline together so that we can present it to Chris. I'm not sure after this week when we want to meet up to make sure we have this group presentation ready to go. Just some thoughts for Wednesday.