[alt-photo] Re: new MFA program in alt!

[francis schanberger]

Hey Chris!

I'll forward this to some of my students one of whom may be helping you out
this summer in Pennland.

-francis

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 1:16 AM, Philippe Berger
<mineurdecharbon at skynet.be>wrote:

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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christina Anderson" <
> zphoto at montana.net>
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> Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2010 6:37 AM
> Subject: [alt-photo] new MFA program in alt!
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>
>  Dear All,
>>
>> I am really excited about this.  As we all know, alt is fairly
>> underrepresented in contemporary photography.  One friend said at Photo
>> Fest, for instance, you could practically count on two hands the number of
>> alt people in the crowd of hundreds if not thousands.  Same with such
>> publications as Humble Arts, or Critical Mass, or whatnot. Alt is fairly
>> niche. I mean, a certain amount of that is a good thing--that it isn't
>> mainstream, but nevertheless, when photo programs start talking about the
>> fetishism of the object that is the photograph when too much attention is
>> paid to process blah blah blah you begin to feel like you should be listed
>> in the DSM IV.
>>
>> Well, I just found out today from a former student of mine that
>> Christopher James, dean,  is starting an MFA at the Art Institute of Boston
>> that has an emphasis in alt!  It will not start until all the paperwork is
>> in place, projected date of Sept. 2011, but I am really pleased to hear this
>> and thought you'd all appreciate this, too.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> Christina Z. Anderson
>> christinaZanderson.com
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