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43-541: In the late 1930s, Thomas Plassmann, president of St. Bonaventure University in Western New York, sent seven Franciscan friars to New York's Capital Region to found another college. A Siena College Grotto along with a new bookstore opened in Fall 2014. A new rugby pitch was opened in Fall 2016. In 2020, the college was listed as a census-designated place ( Siena College CDP ) Siena College students attend three schools within

86-402: A busy working photo-journalist, traveling all the time; home briefly in between. Although much of his assigned work was in color, he was never without a camera loaded with black and white film and a small box of extra rolls, which he used to capture what intrigued and fascinated him always: life in progress, people in their environments, enigmatic, unfinished, ambitious. His devotion to photography

129-713: A cardinal and Doctor of the Church. A theologian and contemporary of Thomas Aquinas at the University of Paris, he became head of the Franciscan order. Bonaventure was canonized in 1482 by Sixtus IV . The Franciscan friars at the St. Bonaventure Friary belong to the Holy Name Province and are members of the Order of Friars Minor , one of the orders of Franciscans. The university is also home to

172-641: A final selection of only 74 frames. These, together with text by Ruth Bains Hartmann, formed the book and exhibition In the Camps , published in 1995 in English, French, and German and exhibited in more than twenty venues in the US and Europe in the years since: ″If I have learned any lesson from having been in the remains of the camps," says Hartmann, ″it is that thinking or living for oneself alone has become an unaffordable luxury. Except perhaps in dreams, life no longer takes place on

215-635: A joint initiative between the School of Education and the School of Arts and Sciences, promotes interdisciplinary research and increases awareness of the importance of attention and learning in education. The university also hosts the Franciscan Institute, which provides grants for research on the history and theology of the Franciscan Order. In the U.S. News & World Report ' s 2025 rankings of colleges and universites, St. Bonaventure University

258-494: A life in which gas chambers will not be used again anywhere and a future in which children, including my granddaughters, will not know what they are.″ In all of his travel, for work and pleasure, Hartmann carried a small camera with a few rolls of black and white film, prepared for every visual opportunity. He also deliberately pursued a series of imaginative projects including experiments with ink in water, stroboscopic light effects, beach pebbles constrained in boxes, and others. In

301-587: A magazine photographer and photojournalist″ says Hartmann, ″working in many parts of the world for major magazines and businesses, often on subjects of general interest and most often on topics having to do with high technology. Alongside and intertwined with that photographic life has been another, an exploration mainly of aspects of my middle-class (and now late middle-age) self and some of the forces that had an effect on it. I have chosen autobiography as main theme of my personal work for more than one reason. I believe that I can speak most convincingly of what I have known

344-613: A major show in New York and other smaller shows.″ This concern with dehumanization led him undertake in his late years a very personal and intimate project that both honored and transcended memory. Auschwitz , Bełżec , Bergen-Belsen , Birkenau , Buchenwald , Bullenhuser Damm , Chełmno , Dachau , Emsland , Gross Rosen , Majdanek , Mauthausen , Natzweiler , Neuengamme , Ravensbrück , Sachsenhausen , Sobibor , Theresienstadt , Treblinka , Vught , Westerbork ... For more than eight weeks in 1994, Erich and Ruth Hartmann undertook

387-782: A member of the ECAC , and later the North Atlantic Conference, a forerunner to the present day America East Conference . In 1990, the college moved to the MAAC where it has remained since. Siena has not always been known by its present moniker. Athletic teams were first known as the Golden Hurricanes and later as the Indians . In March 1989, the school adopted its current nickname, the Saints . Many of Siena's athletic teams have experienced success at

430-595: A more tolerant and cosmopolitan environment. The situation only worsened, however, and the family determined that they had to leave Germany. In August 1938, they accepted the opportunity to emigrate to the United States , having received the necessary affidavit of support from distant relatives there. They sailed from Hamburg to New York City, staying initially in Washington Heights, Manhattan , before settling outside Albany, New York . The only English speaker in

473-538: A solitary plane. It is now irrevocably complex, and we, whoever we are, have become intertwined one with the other, whether we like it or not. Acting on that belief may be a more effective tribute to the memory of the dead than mourning alone or vowing that it shall not happen again. And it may also be the most promising way of doing away with the concentration camps. I am not an optimist, but I believe that if we decide that we must link our lives inextricably – that "me" and "them" must be replaced by "us" – we may manage to make

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516-453: A winter journey to photograph the remains of the Nazi concentration and extermination camps, and places of deportation, throughout Europe. He was determined to take only black and white photographs and to capture only what he saw, immediately when arriving, no matter whether days looked like nights. He returned to New York with 120 rolls of film, from which he made a first edit of 300 photographs and

559-1049: Is an NCAA Division I member of the Atlantic 10 Conference and offers 19 varsity athletic programs. The school's programs are known as the Bonnies. The men's team has reached the NCAA men's basketball tournament a total of 8 times, most recently in the 2020–2021 season . Six alumni of the university have received the Pulitzer Prize , including Dan Barry (1980), Bill Briggs (1985), Robert A. Dubill (1958), John Hanchette (1964), Charles J. Hanley (1968), and Brian Toolan (1972). 42°04′41″N 78°28′53″W  /  42.078094°N 78.481307°W  / 42.078094; -78.481307 Erich Hartmann (photographer) Erich Hartmann (July 29, 1922 in Munich – February 4, 1999 in New York City)

602-489: The Atlantic 10 Conference . Students and alumni often refer to the university as Bona's , derived from the school's name. The college was founded by Utica, New York , financier Nicholas Devereux , one of the first to gain land grants in newly surveyed Cattaraugus County from the Holland Land Company . Devereux founded the town of Allegany on the grant, hoping to build a new city. Devereux approached John Timon ,

645-626: The Census Bureau . The university's postal address is Saint Bonaventure, NY 14778. The university has more than 50 academic programs, including programs in the Jandoli School of Communication, School of Arts & Sciences, School of Business, School of Education, and The Dennis R. DePerro School of Health Professions. St. Bonaventure also has the Center for the Study of Attention, Learning & Memory,

688-569: The New School for Social Research with Charles Leirens, Berenice Abbott , and Alexey Brodovitch . His portrait subjects over the years included architect Walter Gropius , writers Arthur Koestler and Rachel Carson , musicians Leonard Bernstein and Gidon Kremer , actor Marcel Marceau , fellow photographer Ed Feingersh , and many other literary and musical personalities. Music played a great role in his life and work: "Music captured me before photography did," he recalled. "In my parents' house there

731-527: The Trappists . He entered the monastery in Kentucky in 1941. A heart-shaped clearing on a mountain in view of campus is linked to Merton in campus myth. Some students call it "Merton's Heart" and claim that Merton visited the place often and that the trees fell when he died. In reality, the hillside had been cleared for oil drilling in the 1920s and trees have since regrown, leaving the bald patch. St. Bonaventure

774-598: The Washington Nationals . Lannan has since become a regular starter in Washington's rotation. They also participated in the 2014 NCAA Division I baseball tournament, after winning the MAAC Championship over Canisius. Finally, the men's lacrosse team has also improved significantly in recent years. The Saints qualified for their first MAAC tournament in 2007 and their first NCAA tournament in 2009. That season,

817-458: The 1970s, Ruth Hartmann remembers: ″He saw there a way to make light truly "write", to "photo" "graph". He began experimenting with diffusing laser light through different kind of glass, through prisms, lenses of all kinds, through faceted doorknobs, breaking the light into pieces to make designs, to write. He then refined his techniques so as to be able to impose a controlled image of concentrated light on landscapes, then on people. This culminated in

860-501: The British, was highly respected. In 1930, only eight years old, Erich took his first photographs. Life became increasingly difficult after the Nazi takeover in 1933, including personal, financial, business, and family restrictions and the beginning of deportations of Jews to the first so-called ' labor camp ' in the village of Dachau . The Hartmann family moved to Munich that year, in search of

903-500: The Bulge ) and France, and with the liberating forces as a court interpreter at Nazi trials in Cologne , Germany. At the end of the war he moved to New York City where, in 1946, he married Ruth Bains; they had two children, Nicholas (born in 1952) and Celia (born in 1956). During these years, he worked as an assistant to portrait photographer George Feyer, and then as a freelancer. He studied at

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946-731: The College Suites or commute from nearby areas. Approximately 90 student clubs and organizations range from academic and professional groups to cultural and recreational clubs. Siena College has approximately 28,000 living alumni worldwide, including former college president Kevin J. Mullen. In the fields of journalism and literature, notable Siena graduates include William J. Kennedy , 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner; Erich Hartmann , international award-winning photojournalist and former president of Magnum Photos ; David Hepp , award-winning journalist and creator of Inside Albany and Ed Henry , senior White House correspondent for Fox News. In

989-584: The Division I level. The college's most well known squad is the men's basketball team . The Saints have appeared in six NCAA tournaments , advancing to the Round of 32 in 1989 , 2008 and 2009 . Siena has also played in the postseason NIT five times, capturing third place in 1994 . In 2014, Siena competed in their first College Basketball Invitational tournament and won the championship defeating Stony Brook, Penn State, Illinois State and Fresno State two games to one in

1032-431: The Franciscan Institute. Founded in 1939 by Thomas Plassmann, then president of St. Bonaventure's College, and led by its first director, Philotheus Boehner . The campus sits on 500 acres (2.0 km ) in the town of Allegany , just over the line from the city of Olean (total pop.: 15,000), at Exit 24 of Interstate 86 . The university has its own US Post Office and is listed as a separate census-designated place by

1075-462: The Jandoli School of Communication's student-produced newscast, "SBU-TV", became available to television viewers across Western New York. Thomas Merton , the Catholic monk and writer, taught English at St. Bonaventure for a year just at the start of World War II , living on campus on the second floor of Devereux Hall. It was at this school that Merton finally gave into his vocation and decided to join

1118-528: The New York Supreme Court, Third Judicial District. St. Bonaventure University St. Bonaventure University is a private Franciscan university in St. Bonaventure, New York . It has 2,760 undergraduate and graduate students. The Franciscans established the university in 1858. In athletics, the St. Bonaventure Bonnies play National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I sports in

1161-616: The Newhouse Citation in Photography (US) and numerous Art Directors Club awards. His principal interest, in photography as in life, was the way in which people relate both to their natural surroundings and to the environments they create. Our Daily Bread and The World of Work were continuing long-term projects. He documented not only industry and technology – glass-making, boat-building, farming, food production, aviation, construction, space exploration, scientific research – but also

1204-727: The Saints secured an automatic berth in the tournament after winning their first MAAC championship during a ten-game winning streak. Siena College Research Institute , an affiliate of Siena College, conducts expert and public opinion polls, focusing on New York State and the United States, on issues of public policy interest. Siena has various housing options, including traditional residence halls, private rooms, and townhouse units, across eight residential communities. Housing assignments for Siena students who live on campus are based on class year. Additionally, some students opt for off-campus housing at

1247-710: The United States. Many more exhibits followed over the years, in the United States, Japan, and throughout Europe. He lectured at the International Summer Academy in Salzburg, Austria , at the Syracuse University School of Journalism, and elsewhere, taught at workshops and seminars, and received commendations including the Photokina award (Cologne, Germany), the CRAF International Award (Italy),

1290-476: The best-of-three championship series. The women's basketball teams has also had a recent run of success, including a trip to the NCAA tournament in 2001 , and appearances in the 1999, 2002 and 2003 WNIT . They finished second in the 2015 WBI. Another team with recent high achievement is men's baseball. The Saints advanced to the 1999 NCAA Division I baseball tournament and in 2005 saw pitcher John Lannan drafted by

1333-518: The bishop of Buffalo , for assistance. The two invited the Franciscan order to Western New York, and a small group under Pamfilo da Magliano arrived in 1855. The school graduated its first class in 1858. St. Bonaventure's College was granted university status by New York State in 1950. The largest residence hall on campus, Devereux Hall, is named for the founder. The university is named after Bonaventure (1221–1274), born John of Fidenza, who became

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1376-487: The college: Within the three schools, Siena offers 43 majors, over 80 minors, certificates, concentrations, and 12 graduate programs. Siena offers 21 NCAA Division I sports, all of which participate in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC). The college generally only competed against local schools in athletics until being elevated to the Division I level in 1976. At this time, Siena became

1419-603: The family, Erich Hartmann worked in a textile mill in Albany, New York , attending evening high school and later taking night courses at Siena College . On December 8, 1941, the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor , the US entered the war, and Erich enlisted in the US Army. Trained in Virginia and at Ohio State University , he had to wait until 1943 before serving in England, Belgium ( Battle of

1462-751: The fields of law and government, notable Siena graduates include Francis Bergan , former presiding justice of the New York Court of Appeals; Michael Botticelli , director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy; Constantine George Cholakis , former judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York; George Deukmejian , 35th governor of California; former United States representatives from New York Jack Quinn and Gerald B. H. Solomon ; and Henry F. Zwack , justice of

1505-413: The human cultural and geographical context: Shakespeare 's England, James Joyce 's Dublin or Thomas Mann 's Venice . His personal projects reveal a fascination with the way technology can embody beauty: the abstract patterns of ink drops in water, intimate portraits of tiny precision-manufactured components, or laser light in natural and man-made environments. His obsession with laser light began in

1548-440: The idea and impetus for this came from the photographer himself in his lifetime and has been realized by others attempting to continue the idea in accordance with his notes″. ″ "Where I was" was not always a specific geographic spot; it was often a frame of mind, as when he found the mannequin factory and saw there a simple and seemingly innocent metaphor for the dehumanizing horrors of our time. (...) These are personal pictures of

1591-684: The late 1990s, with an eye to a future retrospective exhibition, Hartmann began making a definitive selection from fifty years of this personal work in black and white. Just a few months before his death he began discussions with a gallery in Austria about organizing an exhibition called "Where I Was". Ruth Hartmann continued and completed the project after he died, and "Where I Was" opened at Galerie Fotohof in Salzburg on June 27, 2000, traveling subsequently to Germany, New York, and Tokyo. ″Different from most posthumous exhibits″, writes Ruth Hartmann, ″the beginning,

1634-527: The poetics of science and technology for French, German and American Geo and other magazines. Throughout his life he traveled widely on assignments for the major magazines of the US, Europe and Japan and for many corporations such as AT&T , Boeing , Bowater, Citroën , Citibank , Corning Glass, DuPont , European Space Agency , Ford , IBM , Johns Hopkins University , Kimberly-Clark , Pillsbury Company , Nippon Airways , Schlumberger , TWA , and Woolworth , for all of which he used color. In 1952 he

1677-555: Was a German-born American photographer. Erich Hartmann was born July 29, 1922, in Munich , Germany , the eldest child of Max and Irma (Blattner) Hartmann who lived in Passau , a small city on the Danube near the Austrian border in which they were one of five Jewish families. Hartmann's family was middle class. His father, a social-democrat who served during World War I and had been imprisoned by

1720-748: Was invited to join Magnum Photos , the international photographers’ cooperative founded in 1947 by Robert Capa , David Seymour , George Rodger and Henri Cartier-Bresson , he served on the board of directors from 1967 to 1986, and as president in 1985–1986. His first solo exhibition Sunday with the Bridge , a photographic study of the Brooklyn Bridge , opened at the Museum of the City of New York in 1956. In 1962, his book and exhibition Our Daily Bread toured widely around

1763-411: Was lifelong and intense; he saw pictures everywhere. Taking these personal pictures kept his own course steady even as he worked, with equal devotion, on widely varying assignments which often bred new passions and fascinations, as evidenced in his involvement with the intricate beauties of technology. Some of these pictures here come from such assignments. He was There, too.″ ″I have earned my living as

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1806-475: Was not much music except for a hand-cranked gramophone on which I surreptitiously and repeatedly played a record of arias from "Carmen". This was before I could read!″ In the 1950s Hartmann first became known to the wider public for his poetic approach to science, industry and architecture in a series of photo essays for Fortune magazine, beginning with The Deep North , The Building of Saint Lawrence Seaway and Shapes of Sound . He later did similar essays on

1849-487: Was ranked nineteenth (tie) among "Regional Universities North" and eighth in "Best Value Schools". The campus newspaper, The Bona Venture , has been published continuously since 1926. Known on campus as The BV, the newspaper has earned The Pacemaker Award numerous times from the Associated Collegiate Press , the last time in 1994. The school's student radio station is known as WSBU 88.3 The Buzz . In 2019,

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