Bert Beaver taught photography at RISD for many years as well as at the Art Institute Chicago. He was hired by Harry Callahan and replaced him as the head of the department in the 1970s. Bert had a great sense of humor. This photo was taken in Provincetown where we headed off one day on a class assignment to see the effects of consuming alcohol and taking photos. Bert is wearing a beret and lost in thought by the waves but you can still see him smiling.
Author: Harry Bartlett
Down by the River
This is a photo silkscreen Carlo Cannell created. It’s of Tom, Larry & Bayard down by the river probably in Lawrence MA. I always associate this with first reading Jack Kerouac and the times we went to Lowell to see where he was buried. We were very inspired and influenced by Kerouac and the Beat writers.
Al
This is a yearbook senior pic I took of a good friend. It’s a double exposure with a 4 x 5 large-format camera and was taken in the basement of the Pot Pourri yearbook room which was in an old building originally the cafeteria supposedly. We were told the closets were where they stored food before refrigeration. Anyways this photo was taken there. I’m not sure I meant to take a double exposure, I probably just exposed the Plus X film twice without knowing it which was the fun part of photography, the surprises that happened. Al chose a quote from the Velvet Underground song Beginning to See the Light which was popular back then.
Casey Blues
Casey plays the blues… Andover-Exeter weekend probably 1979. Casey was an inspired young lad – staring intently at a nerf football maybe wondering why he was wearing a coat and tie with a school flag at the big game. Not a jock by any means nor a rah rah go big blue cheerleader, more intellectual and very funny and smart. He wrote a poem called ‘Playing those Blues in D’ that I still remember. Here he’s playing the harmonica – maybe a Hohner D harp.
