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WHILE THE Metropolitan Museum of New York has been digging up Greek vases from European collections, the Fogg has been unearthing photographs from Harvard's own department basements. From these unforeseen sources and with the aid of a $10,000 matching great from the National Endowment of the Arts for the purchase of contemporary American photographs. Davis Pratt, Curator of Photography at the Fogg, has put together handsome exhibition of 20th century photographic masters and innovators. On view until December 31, in Galleries II and III, Contemporary American Photographs dispels the notion that the photographer is any more limited...
...Fogg's early acceptance of photography as an art procured for it the first National Endowment Grant for photography. Such foresight is evidenced further by Pratt's selectors for its exhibition. Top billing is given to lesser-established artists, although a few 20th century masters, such as Walker Evans, Paul Strand, Diane Arbus. Berenice Abbott and Minor White have adequate representation for comparison...
While the younger photographers us the Fogg exhibition have been concerned with experimentation and the development of photography through unusual techniques, the recognized masters hold onto more traditional theories of photography. Although some of these innovators have not matured in technique, their efforts expand our aesthetic consciousness of photography. Paul Strand, who has been photographing since 1915, advocates the use of straight photographic methods and proclaims the uniqueness of their objectivity, yet does not question the value of the other arts. He wrote...
...were warned that the highlight of Orientation Week would be the reception given by President and Sissela Bok at the Fogg Art Museum. Such luminaries as L. Fred Jewett '57, dean of Admissions, and F. Skiddy von Stade '38, dean of freshmen, were on hand to greet the Class, but with all due respects to them, the pastries were the best part of the evening. We did not get a chance to meet with President Bok because he was involved in a discussion with about 15 eager freshmen about placement test scores...
JUDGING FROM THE FOGG'S current exhibition, the art world's preoccupation with abstract art seems to have temporarily ceased. And for those of the general public who have felt innundated, if not bored by, this ten-year bombardment of squares and stripes, the show entitled Recent Figure Sculpture at least provides an incentive to return to the museum. Realism in art has re-emerged, and in this case it is a realism both humorous and shocking. Even the person who feels he has to be entertained by art exhibitions should enjoy it. Debates will undoubtedly continue as to whether...