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...renowned director Peter M. Sellars ’80 made visionary use of the Adams House Pool, now a common venue for Harvard theater. Sellars’ production is just one example of the experimental, anti-establishment creative work that has profited from the use of house facilities. Basement darkrooms and dance facilities give students the opportunity to make art outside of established venues such as Sanders Theater or the Carpenter Center.But while these facilities are advertised as being open to all, some have gone unused in recent years, and relatively few students know of their existence.A few may soon...
This semester at Harvard, when the Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) Department offered a studio course titled VES 40a: “Introduction to Still Photography,” the students might have expected to learn the alchemical process of mixing chemicals in the darkroom to produce their prints. But this year, half of the 20 enrolled students were given Canon Rebel XTI digital cameras instead of the Pentax K1000 film cameras that the other 10 students received. The move, according to teachers, may be controversial, but is necessary. “Before, you would conserve and put all your...
...DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE’“There’s only beginning to be a forum here at Harvard, because people don’t understand how pervasive the problem is,” said a male student who contributed a prose piece called “Darkroom.”He wrote the piece about his struggle to deal with a previous experience of his girlfriend’s, he said.“She reviewed every draft, and writing has been a very emotional and therapeutic process,” the student said last night...
...seem to reveal the very essence of the photographic process. Here light carries an almost god-like aura, peering into the most inscrutable of subjects. Even in the subtly manipulated Lauren, 2003, Petrina Hicks uses new technologies to highlight photography's old-fashioned alchemy. Left any longer in the darkroom, one imagines, her pink-lidded albino girl would bleach to white...
...blue and green light. “What you end up with is a color picture, but all the colors are shifted to the infrared,” he says. He describes this starting point as “clay that I can mold in my digital darkroom.” According to Sullivan, almost every photograph in the exhibit was significantly manipulated after it was taken. He says this helped him cope with the challenge of photographing a country that so frequently appears in pictures. “This is an anti-green interpretation,” Sullivan says...