Tag: Photography

  • Arts & Culture

    Provocative Civil War exhibit at Fogg to coincide with inauguration

    An exhibition opens at the Fogg Art Museum this Saturday (Oct. 6) that will have lots of people talking.

    3 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    In brief

    ‘HUCTW Creates’ showcases range of talents “HUCTW Creates: The Visual Arts,” a group art exhibit featuring visual artist members of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) will be up through July 31 at Gutman Library, 6 Appian Way. The closing reception will be held July 31 from 5 to 7 p.m.

    1 minute
  • Campus & Community

    Through a child’s eye

    At first glimpse, the photos don’t seem particularly revealing: a fish on a plate, a television, clean dishes on a rack, a toddler with outstretched arms, a lighted porch. But to Wendy Luttrell, these pictures — and 1,600 others like them in her data base at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) — open…

    6 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    West Bank youths, with cameras, visit CGIS

    Four teenage participants from the Picture Balata workshop made a stop at Harvard this past Wednesday evening (April 11) as part of their two-week tour of the United States. The teenagers, Palestinians from Balata Refugee Camp outside of Nablus, West Bank, visited the Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS), where they displayed their work…

    1 minute
  • Arts & Culture

    A new look at the ‘Good War’

    World War II has been called “The Good War,” often in contrast to later conflicts whose moral justification is seen as more ambivalent. But how did the Good War become good, and what aspects of it had to be suppressed to qualify it for that title? Three scholars attempted to answer that question at a…

    5 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Center names photograph conservator

    Paul M. Weissman ’52 and Harriet L. Weissman, whose gift created the University Library’s Weissman Preservation Center in 2000, have announced vital new support for the center’s growing photograph conservation program. With a $1.25 million gift announced on March 1, they will support the senior photograph conservator’s position in the Weissman Preservation Center.

    3 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    Boym turns chance errors into chancy art

    Svetlana Boym leads a double life. Her faculty Web page identifies her as the Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Professor of Comparative Literature. She is the author of several scholarly books and teaches courses with titles like “Memory and Modernity” and “Russian Culture from Revolution to Perestroika.”

    3 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    Exhibit unveils forgotten photos

    An early 20th century visitor to Harvard – especially if he or she were a forward-thinking person who believed that science was the best approach to solving society’s problems – would probably be eager to climb to the top floor of Emerson Hall to see the newly installed Social Museum. The museum was the brainchild…

    4 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    New York artist expresses long passion for polar exploration

    They are odds and ends of lives long past, lived in the cold and ice of the world’s polar regions. They are bits and pieces that give a feeling as much as they tell a story: an old photograph here, a line drawing there, a braided ribbon, a newspaper headline. The collages lining the walls…

    4 minutes