A Matter of Perspective

The usual view is from the center of the Green north to Baker or east to Dartmouth Hall. This is the way Dartmouth looks, and it is imprinted on the consciousness like a postcard image of Mount Vernon or of the New York skyline. But there are fresh ways of seeing Dartmouth. Stuart Bratesman '75, a photographer based in Hanover, took the pictures in this portfolio last summer. There is Baker's spire looming over the vaulted roof of Hopkins Center (above); Gerry-Bradley, that exercise in 1930s Modernism, appearing as if it were imported from Italy; red-brick Georgian reflected in the smoky glass of functionalism; elm and slate coming together atop Rollins Chapel; the seldom observed eyebrow of Dartmouth Hall. It is all a matter of perspective.

Tuck School mirrored in Murdough

Rollins Chapel

The European Modernism of Gerry-Bradley (below and opposite)

Dartmouth's eyebrow, between the east entrances

Cross-walk neighbors: Hopkins Center and the former Roger's Garage.

Baker again, framed in the angularity of Murdough.