The Benefits of an Ivy League Education

It's reputed that the Yale School of Art represents the top of the photography education programs in this country if you are interested in entering the Art World and being successful as a manufacturer of fine art photography. I don't know if this is empirically true as I have yet to investigate the density of Yale MFA degrees in current and recent photography shows in town, but something in my gut says this reputation is outsized in comparison with the evidence. In any case, it may be educational to watch the career trajectories of the current crop of graduates, whose work is (mostly) on display on the Yale Gallery wiki. I say "mostly" because, since it is a wiki, any member of the Yale community can log in and edit the gallery pages and,as a result, approximately a third of the 90 images are now broken and unviewable. No attribution is given to the individual images, so it's not too useful for sussing out the new generation of photography all-stars, but it is instructive to me that my own struggle with proper exposure of the sky in landscape work is probably misplaced effort.