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...Fogg Art Museum has installed two closed-circuit television cameras on a trial basis as part of an effort to strengthen the building's overall security...
...closed-circuit system, designed to protect the museum's collections from fire and water damage as well as from theft and vandalism, will remain on trial "for at least a few months," Seymour Slive, acting director of the Fogg, said yesterday...
...when I was a naive freshman and took two full-year introductory courses--fine arts and psychology--at the same time. A young man hungering for experience and stimulation, I gradually became hypnotized by the slides of archaic paintings flashing ever so quickly on the walls of the Fogg Norton Lecture Hall. An alert mind in a trim body, I became irrevocably anesthetized by distantly-articulated words bouncing lazily up the tiered rows of Burr B. Like the summer I spent in Israel, when I ate so many cucumber-laden salads I was forced to stay away from cucumbers...
...viewer to question and analyze his or her previous assumptions about the nature of the photographic image. Experimentation for the sake of experimentation is necessary to the continued vitality of any art form. It is through the willingness of photographers like those whose works are now hanging in the Fogg Museum to question and re-examine old standards that new standards and aesthetics will be formed...
...most interesting features of the Fogg exhibit is the diversity of artistic issues and problems covered by the works. Several artists--numerically the smallest group--are primarily concerned with exploring purely formal qualities of design, texture, color and light. Both Linda Conner and Paul Kohl blur and soften the contours of the scenes they photograph and emphasize contrasts of light and dark--Conner in order to turn commonplace scenes into quiet worlds of peace and timelessness, Kohl in order to create beautifully balanced compositions of glowing geometric shapes...