10:00 (Historical Environment) The Picturesque Period and the Taming of the English Landscape-(Seminar 1) Steffi Klenz
This was actually more interesting than I had expected.
After the lecture study group 'I' were tasked with the deconstruction and analysis on an image "Crocodile on River Bank, Egypt", 1857, Albumen print from wet plate negative by Francis Frith.
We agreed as a team to have a 10 minute break before attempting the task in hand.
Being Group 'I' we weren't prepared to await our 14:45 appointment with Nick Turner before we started!
The group discussed what was required and read the brief closely, we then split into two groups, one using online research techniques, the other the university library. Having not used the library previously I joined Dana and Ian Wisbey to see what we could achieve within the library. Upon entering the library it soon became apparent that the catalogue system was not working. I initially logged onto Art Full Text, but saw little in the way of quality or quantity of information that might assist us, so we resorted to an online search to find books featuring information on Francis Frith. We located the book we (Ian) had found online and two other books were selected (via title, and based on our knowledge of the date of the photograph and the scope of the books) a check of the glossary to see Francis Frith was listed was made prior to booking out.
Armed with this information we worked on the presentation (Ian Turner kindly using his laptop to create the PowerPoint) with input from everyone. Images were located and added to the PowerPoint and it was complete prior to the 14:45 appointment with Nick. The appointment proved to be interesting, because Nick with myself re-visited Art Full Text, and found the few references to our artist were in fact all unavailable. We showed Nick the presentation, explained we had three books to reference from and basically confirmed that nothing more was available. I had spotted a book printed in 2000 referenced in one of the books we had, containing much of Friths work. Nick checked and that too was also unavailable..
15:45 Presentation to several groups (for a first attempt and considering we went first) was OK. Everyone spoke (not something many people enjoy), and we delivered as a team. Next time it will be even better with some tweaking. Hindsight is a wonderful thing!
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