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Despite her political interests, she won't concentrate in Social Studies. "Probably VES," she says...
...Social Anthropology, which is an easy major, because I didn't have the balls to tell my parents I wanted to be an arts and crafts major. Because that's what they would call it, even though I think it's one of the best departments at Harvard, the VES department, at least it was when I was there. I applied to two classes, sculpture and filmmaking, and I didn't get into the sculpture class, but I got into filmmaking. And I really dug it, and it was the first class that kept me awake at night...
Gilmore started photography in high school. She is a history and literature concentrator, but manages to take classes in the visual and environmental studies (VES) department, which isn't easy to do: "I think it's really hard to get into VES if you're not a VES concentrator, but once you get in, the resources available are phenomenal," she says. "But getting in, it's the struggle. It's luck and perseverance, which is a heavy and difficult combination...
Over the last couple years, VES courses have led Gilmore to experiment with alternatives to standard 35mm black-and-white photography, working in color and with large-format cameras. The results include spectacular close-ups of flowers and brilliantly colored vegetables, purple cabbage and an onion peel, colored in a radiant yet muted fashion...
...Harvard, your commitment to the arts is dreadfully lacking. Arts First--Harvard's annual token tribute to the celebration of arts--does not compensate for the number of students with a genuine passion for the visual and environmental sciences who are turned away from VES classes each semester. It is easy to see that the act of creating visual art is an intellectual pursuit. Why can't the rest of the University see that...