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1. Portraits from 1981 by Linda Benedict-Jones
CRLS
Cambridge Rindge & Latin School
Cambridge, Massachusetts

2. Circle Center Radius

3. Girl with peasant blouse and blanket

4. Boy with half smile

5. Two girls in front of Portuguese writing

6. Girl with headband and pressed jeans

7. Stripes

8. Girls, back-to-back

9. Girl with dotted white dress

10. Girl and boy in hallway

11. Boy with scar

12. Three girls leaning on blackboard

13. Boy with dress shirt

14. Girl with knit top

15. Girl with big mouse shirt

16. Boy with turned up collar

17. HEY!

18. New information as of 2021….None of the high
school students’ names are known to me
except for these two. I recently found this
contact sheet in this glassine envelope with
their names, written in a hand-writing that is
different from the names and phone numbers
on the slip of paper inserted in the envelope.
None of this hand-writing is mine and I don’t
recall getting this information but it’s likely to
identify these two students.

19. Boy with leather cap and earrings

20. Girl in short sleeves with crossed arms

21. Boy with thumbs in pockets

22. Two girls with arms around each other

23. Boy with cigarettes, bracelet, and belt buckle

24. Three girls by clean blackboard

25. Three boys by lockers

26. Girl in white with braids

27. EXPLANATION

28. Two girls, two necklaces, nine rings, and one earring

29. Boy standing straight

30. Girl with flowered blouse

31. CRLS SOCCER

32. Two boys wearing sweaters

33. Girl with zebra stripes and paper bag

34. Have a Coke

35. Two girls wearing white tops

36. Three girls posing by blackboard

37. Girl and boy by lockers

38. Girl with long, dark hair

39. Makeda, for reference: Curator Gary VanZante has asked if these seventeen
4x5-inch Polaroid photographs from the CRLS project could be included
in the April 2022 exhibition at the new MIT Museum in Cambridge.

40. These portraits were made in the hallways and classrooms of
Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. I made these photographs
for my final project at M.I.T. where I received a Master of Science
in Visual Studies degree in 1982 from the Creative Photography
Laboratory. I used a wooden View Camera and 4x5-inch black-and
white sheet film, both Polaroid and conventional. The
photographic prints were also made at that time. There is only one
complete set, acquired by curator Makeda Best at the Harvard Art
Museums in 2019. Many of the images were printed twice,
however, and occasionally several prints were made.
The actual photographs were placed in acid-free storage boxes in
1982 and were only opened in 2018. Please note that the prints
have never been professionally scanned, and all of the jpgs in this
Powerpoint were made with my iPhone.
CRLS

41. fin.