Hyman, Laurence J.2016-09-052016-09-051969-05-13http://hdl.handle.net/11209/10392"There seems to be growing concern among the students that, for financial reasons, FEPC has dropped the academic offering of photography at Bennington. This is not true, and I feel this subject should be qualified immediately. FEPC has not discussed the subject, nor has the art division. I resigned some weeks ago from the teaching of photography for a variety of professional reasons. Basically my reasons were that I have neglected my own photographic work; that I find it necessary now to devote greatly increased amounts of time to the College's publications; that photography, in order to be offered properly, needs more faculty time and monetary expenditure than the College can now afford; and , finally, that the art division is not convinced that the medium is valid as a graphic art or that the teaching of photography at Bennington is as important as architecture or ceramics or other art division studio courses."en-US