For the fourth and probably final exhibition of this season's series of contemporary art showings, Dunster House is presenting the photographs of Eliot Furness Porter '24. The twenty pictures hung in the large common room comprise the major portion of the collection which Dr. Porter exhibited in his recent one-man show at the Delphic Studios in New York.

A Delicate Technique

Renouncing the artistic novelties which distinguish the work of Man Ray and his followers, Dr. Porter none the less manages to achieve an individuality of spirit which makes his pictures striking examples of the creative possibilities of the camera. Largely through a fineness of subject selectivity, a skillful perceptive of light values and a delicate sensitivity to line, Dr. Porter has infused his pictures with an integrated completeness and a highly pleasing simplicity of form. They are in no sense to be classed as photographic tours de force, but command attention as highly skillful camera creations.

Broad Variety of Subjects

The pictures in the current show were made in the Austrian Tyrol and in Maine and they embrace a broad variety of subjects. Among the more striking landscapes is a magnificent shot of a verdant Alpine valley under the shadow of a towering mountain head wall. Especially illustrative of the delicacy of Dr. Porter's technique are the flower studies including a translucently vivid composition of dogwood branches and flowers and a superbly detailed picture of a single rose. Perhaps the most interesting subject content is offered by the pictures of a Tyrolean mountain church yard and an excitingly beautiful picture of a deserted wooden house which has become practically obscured by the lush growth of the vegetation. There are also a skillfully taken shot of mountain snow-scapes and a gentle study of a placid sea quietly dying upon a sunlit beach.