YAM  
  feature  
   

home   about   address   advertise   submit   subscribe   write

depts.
notes
arts
findings
forum
AYA
editor
last look
letters
L&V
milestones
Old Yale
Q&A
scene
sports
webwatching
where
 
archives
date
 
   

advertisingview classifieds
demographics
rates & deadlines
request a media kit
place a classified ad

 
   

External Links

University homepage
Admissions
Association of Yale Alumni
Athletics
Yale Daily News
Office of Public Affairs
School of Architecture
School of Art
Divinity School
School of Drama
School of Engineering & Applied Science
Forestry and Environmental Studies
Graduate School
Law School
School of Management
School of Medicine
School of Music
School of Nursing
School of Public Health

   

Send comments or suggestions to: Web editor

The Yale Alumni Magazine is owned and operated by Yale Alumni Publications, Inc., a nonprofit corporation independent of Yale University. The content of the magazine is the responsibility of the editors and does not necessarily reflect the views of Yale or its officers.

 
 
 

Yale in Light and Shadow

Click here for a selection of photographs by Arnold Gold

In 2001, the New Haven Register sent staff photographer Arnold Gold out to take pictures of Yale athletic facilities for its coverage of the university's Tercentennial. Wanting to try something different, Gold turned to an unusual camera a fellow photographer had given him. Known as a Holga, the $20 camera is made almost entirely of plastic, even the lens. Photographers share tips on how to apply duct tape to the camera's exterior to try to control its inevitable light leaks. But why bother? "The Holga has a kind of cult following," says Gold. "It has an old-style, timeless quality to it, especially the black-and-white photographs."

Gold's Register assignment has turned into a long-running personal project he calls Yale Portfolios. He has already produced a calendar and posters of his Holga images and hopes to publish them in a book. (More of the pictures can be seen on his website, www.arnoldgold.com.) Gold says that although the photos don't include people, he wants to convey "a sense of place and humanity" in them.

"Yale has a presence, on both a monumental and a minute scale," he says. "I have tried in my photographs to capture what I believe is essential and elegant." the end

 
 
 

Copyright ©2009, Yale Alumni Publications, Inc. All rights reserved.
Send comments or suggestions to Web editor.

Yale Alumni Magazine, PO Box 1905, New Haven, CT 06509-1905, USA.
yam@yale.edu