PHOTO 1—History of Photography Chaffey College Instructor: Sarah Bay Gachot

The In-Class Ideas Expansion Exercise Type one or two sentences that sum up your project at the top of an otherwise blank piece of paper - no name, nothing but the summary. Print two copies and bring these to class on the date assigned. Just two copies, that's it, with the same thing at the top. Be as specific as possible and try to include your thesis (or argument) in the sentence. For instance, if you are doing a photo project that responds to photographic studies of human expression in the 19th century, you could write "Through taking my own photographs of human expressions, I am going to propose that the Duchenne du Boulogne's photographic studies of human expression in the 19th century hurt instead of helped the fields of medicine and psychology" or, "My photo project responds to the Duchenne du Boulogne and the photographic studies of human expression in the 19th century because I want to find out what it takes to express true human expression through a photograph. I think it can be done." Or of you are doing the curating project: "I am going to curate an exhibition that respons to the photographic studies of human expression in the 19th century. In my statement I am going to explore whether these photographs hurt or helped the fields of medicine and psychology through close observation of my chosen images." or "Taking cues from 19th-century historic photographic studies of human expression like those by Duchenne du Boulogne, I want to explore what it takes to express true human expression with a photograph by exhibiting several contemporary photographs that do so." An example of a fictional biography sum-up might be: "My fictional biography is about a woman patient who was the subject of some of the Duchenne du Bologne's studies of human expressing. One day during her analysis she decides to take up the camera herself and photograph her doctors. This will be the story of how her photography career worked as a kind of therapy for her and other asylum patients." Those are just some examples of course. Your topic can be on anything relating to photography history and will be a curatorial project, a photography project, or a fictional biography as assigned here.