This week...making choices and doing research.

Hi all,
Now that we have a handle on pairs and groups of students, and you've had time to learn how to do library-based research, in addition to all of the very productive googling that goes into making this blog, it's time to post your final decisions on which photographer you plan to research, write about, and present on this semester. I know some of you have already announced your *final* decisions, but to me they remained tentative until today. So every single student should be writing a blog post this week, between now and 5pm next Sunday, October 21. Please include the following information:

1-The names of everyone in your pair/group
2-The name of the photographer, active since 1990, whom you plan to research
3-A discussion of your research process up to this point
4-At least one bibliographic entry for a scholarly source that relates to your topic. Please write the bibliographic entry according to the Chicago Style and include a few sentences about how this source relates to your photographer and why it will make a good source for a research paper. (Each group member should come up with a unique source. Do not post the same book/article.)

Remember, scholarly sources are printed sources, not websites. Use the resources that our kind librarians spoke of...look for books using WorldCat and CardCat; articles using Art Full Text, JSTOR, etc; and exhibition reviews using The New York Times database/archive.

Here's a link to the Chicago Style guide:
http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html

And here are some common examples of bibliographic entries in Chicago Style:

Book with one author:

Tagg, John. The Burden of Representation: Essays on Photographies and Histories.   Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1988.

Book with multiple authors:

Robertson, Jean, and Craig McDaniel. Themes of Contemporary Art: Visual Art after 1980. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Chapter in a book with multiple authors:

Eldredge, Charles C. "Prairie Prodigal: John Steuart Curry and Kansas." In John Steuart Curry: Inventing the Middle West, edited by Patricia Junker, 90-109. New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with the Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1998.

Article in Journal/Magazine:

Smithson, Robert. “Incidents of Mirror-Travel in the Yucatan.” Artforum 8 (September 1969): 28-33.

Chave, Anna C. “New Encounters with Les Demoiselles D’Avignon: Gender, Race, and the Origins of Cubism.” Art Bulletin 76, no. 4 (December 1994): 596-611.

Any questions? Let me know. I will mediate conflicts if multiple groups want the same photographer, but hopefully, if you've all been reading the blog, you'll have a sense of the wants/needs/interests of your fellow classmates and you've already adjusted accordingly.

See you Tuesday!

LK