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Students in Canaday Hall complained to Buildings and Grounds (B&G) this week about chronic roof leakage in recent months, Frank A. Marciano, superintendant of B&G, said yesterday...
...mirror, reflecting a portrait of the artist who made it...or a window, through which one might better know the world." (This from the show's catalogue essay, written by the museum's director of photography, John Szarkowski). In reviewing "Mirrors and Windows" for The New Republic, John Canaday wrote a reactionary two-part article entitled "Polluted Birthright." "The pollutant I am referring to," Canaday explained, "is the presence of the photographer in the pictures he takes, his intrusion of personal judgements and responses into the only pictorial medium the world has ever seen that can be free of them...
...strictest sense, Canaday was not far wrong. The best contemporary photographers generally have less respect for their subjects than for the photographs that arise from them. Few have been able to produce work of the purity and absoluteness one sees in much of the innocent, incunabular sort of photography of the mid-19th century, in the Civil War photographs of Matthew Brady and his colleagues, or in Eugene Atget's pictures of Paris streets at the turn of the century. Meyerowitz's work, which ranked on the "windows" side of the New York show, has a kind of emphatic resplendence...
...difference is willful. Canaday's complaint, which is over 100 years old, can scarcely concern Meyerowitz. The Cape Cod photographs were motivated by an essentially romantic, lyrical, personal desire not merely to record experience but to describe it. In photographing an object or event, he is loyal primarily to his feelings, to his refined and vivid emotional impression of whatever his eye lands on; and, to somewhat warp and make literal a phrase of Wordsworth's, he throws over the photographed thing "a certain coloring of imagination." The hot oranges, yellow and pinks of pillows filling a couch struck...
Eight dormitories now exceed their capacity limits. They are Adams House (minus students in Claverly) with 312 students to 300 allowed; Canaday, with 226 students to 214 allowed; Holworthy, 88 students to 83 allowed; Kirkland House, 332 students to 325 allowed; Pennypacker, 106 students to 89 allowed; Quincy House (minus students in Claverly), 414 students to 396 allowed; Weld Hall, 152 students to 139 allowed; and Wigglesworth Hall, 193 students to 188 allowed...