In Response to Place

1. Try to decide on one particular artist for your group’s discussion and analysis. (You don’t have to, but you can.) Spend some time together first going over the artist’s photographs and linking them to what the editor says about the artist, and the artist’s own words about what he/she has done or tried to do. Take about a half hour for this.

2. Build a comprehensive analysis that allows you to see (and be able to discuss) what it is about the work that grabs your attention. If you have done an artistic response to a particular piece, incorporate that into your analysis. Take another half hour.

3. Each of you should be able to come back to the larger group with some kind of “take” on what you saw, felt, and responded to in the photograph, and why. Teach us – your colleagues – to see the photograph through your eyes, and tell us how this work fits into what the editor and the author each had to say. If you brought an artistic response, you can also share that with us at this time. Our whole group will come together for the remainder of class.