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