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Professor Santayana gave the first of the series of Camera Club lectures last night in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum on "The Photograph and the Mental Image." He said in part:
Photography is a means of preserving and renewing visual images, just as writing is a means of preserving and renewing thoughts. Photography is an artificial extension of memory, and what memory does for experience--enabling us to retain it--photography may do for memory itself, by helping us to refresh...
Photographs may be very beautiful, if the objects they represent are beautiful or are beautifully lighted and posed; but photography has none of the functions of creative art. Creative art consists in an interpretation of things in relation to some moral interest; it ought to transform or idealize its subject...
St. Paul's Society. Address by the Rev. E. D. Tibbits, Rector of Hoosac School. Brooks House, 7 p. m.
*Camera Club Lecture. The Photograph and the Mental Image. Professor Santayana. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum, 8 p. m.