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frlday, may 4, 1979
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Make,
By Kathy Chenault
There are two distinct planet of ,
photography, according to art photogra
pher Gary Goldberg, and the difference in
style between what he calls "taken" photo-
graphs and "made" photographs Is the am
iguity he said he has been working with
the last year.
Goldberg, 26, a graduate assistant at
Sheldon Art Gallery, said his current show,
"Of Taken and Made", represents a con
scious effort of photographing that he is
trying to bring across.
"Some people take photographs and
some people make photographs, Goldberg
said.
Goldberg said with taken photographs,
9 stake90otogrdphy creates ambiguous experience
the photographer comes away with the at
titude that, "I took that photo."
, "But in making a photograph, it's an
actual physical making effort." It is
actually going out with a pre-determined
idea and making it, he said.
Goldberg , said his latest efforts have
been stimulated by what he has seen in the
environment: These observations prompted
him to make constructions to photograph.
He eaid he took "dues" from the
objects in the environment and created his
own six foot square studio constructions to
photograph with "the same straight dead
pan approach."
Goldberg added that the photographs he
has "fabricated" blend with the found
photographs causing something very
Columnist waxes nostalgic
for daily journalistic fix
ByPegSheldrick
I don't know why, but IVe been a
little cranky lately. I first noticed it the
other day when a little old lady asked
me what I was going to do after I gradu
ate and I replied, "what's it to you, you
old bat?" Can't seem to handle those
little annoyances like I used to.
jDQQGOiM?-
. For awhile I thought maybe it was
the coffee. I drink a few cups every now
and then. Well, more than a few. Okay,
so my blood is 38 percent caffine. Any
way, I had this strange dream where a
former TV doctor comes to me and tells
fine the only way 111 mellow out is to
give up the Java. In the dream I punched
him out. But the next morning I
; decided to give the advice a shot. I went
. without coffee through breakfast. Later,
I noticed my roommate was looking at
me strangely.
Gee I never knew your front teeth
were so long and pointy," she chirped.
"And how come your eyes are so red?
Why are you panting like that? I think
you could use a little Nair on those
hands and-"
"Cars brag frang fmar," I mumbled
as I got out the coffee pot.
"What?"
. "I said, 'Shut up, saccharine face.'
Mcppets peter out
I thought maybe it was the usual
Dead Week melancholia, especially
when I found myself sitting in art
history the other day contemplating a
college that would consist of my in
structor, the podium, and the back-'
wall. I decided it was time to take
drastic action. I did what I knew I must,
and it worked- but only for a time.
' Even The Muppet Show can only take
. you so far.
I tried to talk to a friend about it.
, "Well," she said, "First you gotta
like be, you know, like really honest
with yourself, right? Okay, like I mean
really, really honest, you know, and like
reach down really deep and try to like
; get In touch with your feelings. like,
?you say you're grouchy and you don't
: fciow why, right? Well, man' you do
know why- it's just that you're not like
you know really reaching, you know? I
mean realty, realty, re- Okay, okay,
. mellow out, okay? like I find it like
' really hard to talk with your hand on
my throat like that, okay? Whew, your
. ksrma really is bad."
I suggested she pound sand up her
nose and stalked away.
.V 'ScLizcU
I still wasn't cuite sure what the
problem was u I vnZzsa home and
g ths crossing
'in
found nviilf
tth. ("HI wt2c rhta ! dmn rd
please!") Perhaps it was the two term
papers that fell due within the next 48
hours.
Maybe it was that old familiar panic
that sets in at the thought of being cast
adrift in the "real world" in a matter of
a week or so. What ever the reason, I
found myself reacting to normal conver
sation like a sprung steel trap.
I Was still thinking about it the other
day when someone asked me if I had
anything in the paper that day. Then it
hit. !
As of today, no more bylines. This is
it. The big casino, the long goodbye,
parting is such sweet sorrow" and all
that jazz. After this, the only way 111
get my name in the paper is to win first '
prize for my peach jelly at the state fair.
And I don't even know how to make
peach jelly.
Wtithj for the bomb
The full implications haven't quite
hit me yet. IVe tried to see what it will
be like; For example, the other night I
got into line at a theatre and tried to tell
total strangers what I thought of The
Champ. 1 was ticketed for being a public
nuisance.
I tried to report to my . neighbors
about the new group at Jesse's, but they
sent me on my way, saying they'd read
about it in the paper. And as for humor,
I haven't been able to banter for the
past three weeks. I'm seeing a doctor
about it.
I never knew how much I depend on
that little journalistic fix until now. I
kept telling myself I could quit anytime
I wanted to- and a few times I wanted
to. But now I have to, and I can't quite
bring myself to roll up my typewriter
ribbon and steel off into the desert sun
set. Now I know how Frosty the Snow
man felt.
I've come a long way from my fresh
man year when somebody asked if .there
was a Rag around and tasked him what
he had spilled. IVe enjoyed my brief
sojourn as a token English major nestled
among the would-be Woodwards and
Bernsteins.
But now I must stiffen my upper lip
and wave by-bye to the world of slug
sheets and 60 space lines, no longer to
.pontificate, drcumlocute, and otherwise
send copy editors scurrying for the
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I'd like to make my exit a la Frank
Sinatra with a trench coat slung over my
shoulder and a cigarette dangling from
my lips as I stroll out of the spotlight
into obscurity. But as the sun sinks low
over the Bob Devaney Pleasure Palade,
IH have to settle for hitching up my
.backpack, straightening my Defy Afc
brssken T-shirt, and mounting those
well worn stairs one last time. To my
faithful followers- both of you-1 bid t
fond adieu. And to the rest, live long
and prosper. I shall cot pta this way
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interesting.
"What happens is the teal photographs
look fake and the fake photographs look
real.
"I'm not trying td fool anyone, but it
causes an interesting interplay because we
all believe a photograph to be real; to be
factual. But now we see that's not always
the case."
Goldberg said he likes photographing
the constructions, which were created,
anonymously with no artistic end in mind,
because they allow him freedom with his
subjects.
He said that as an art photographer,
he has matured to the point where he is an
individual artist doing his own work.
"There is a point where emulation ends
and the you begins. What I'm doing how is
a direct reflection, of the me I'm putting
Into my photography '
The constructions ire displayed with
thfrphotographs and are an Important part
of the total effect of the show, the artist
jaid. s . "
"I heard some comments from sculp
tural people and they thought there was
too much competition between the
constructions and the photographs. But
they're responding out of a different sensi
bility. The. show is displayed at the Sheldon
Art Gallery student show, which will run
through Sunday.
Overseas Opportunity Center
counsels traveling for credit
By Cheryl Kisling
The dream of overseas travel can be a
reality, with University of Nebraska class
credit, too, if a student checks with the
Overseas Opportunity Center.
Suzy Prenger, program coordinator, said
OOCS will provide counseling on planning
and budgeting their travel, transportation,
food and lodging, health and insurance,
passports and visas, customs, touring and
entertainment and emergencies.
"If a program is chosen within the uni
versity, a student will receive credit for it,"
Prenger said. "But travel opportunities
with credit are not limited to UNL. Differ
ent ones can be arranged through different
universities."
UNL students would have to pay out
state tuition if-they are In a program in
another state. Prenger said.
'The student must arrange before he
leaves to make sure credit will be transfer
ed," she said.
Offices combine
The OOC is located in Room 345 of the
Nebraska Union. Within that room is the
Foreign Study office, the Flight and Study
Tours office and the tntercultural and
International office. According to Prenger
all four offices work together but have
different responsibilities.
The OOC library has overseas study,
travel, employment, voluntary service,
homestays cultural and Peace Corp infor
mation. Prenger added that OCC counsels a
student on travel alone and not on the
academic aspects.
"Dr. EsquenazliMayo is the advisor for
educational opportunities," Prenger said.
"He Is part of the Institute of International
Studies and also has catalogs of programs
of study offered by other universities."
Graduate and students S. working on
Ph.D.'s have a better opportunity to obtain
research scholarships and grants. According
to Prenger, certain scholarships are selected
for students and Dr. Esquenazi-Mayo could
tell the student about financial aid.
Check resources
"I encourage students to 'beat the path'
and to try anything and everything to get
some sort of financial aid," Prenger said.
"They should apply for all scholarships
available and even to talk to hometown
organizations for help."
. Prenger also said that it Is helpful to get
in contact with other students who have
already made the trip to find out more.
The OOC has an updated people resource
file which has the names of students and
faculty with international experience and
will share this with others. '
Workshops are also presented by people
familiar with the area a student wishes to
Visit, Prenger said.
As for chosing a program, Prenger said
this is up to the individual."
"We don't hand over a program and say
'this is what you want, Prenger said. "We
let the student make decisions themselves.
That way they learn more about what is
entailed In travel;-
Ten undaunted students publish
unpretentious literary magazine
ByBillRegkr
For many yean there have been frust
rated attempts to produce I campus liter
ary magazine at UNL. Editorial bickering, 4
production expenses, wounded vanities,
feeble manuscripts, and inexperience all
have played a part in keeping such a maga
zine in the offing but out of print. . ;
n - n
It Is almost too sudden a surprise to see
The Magazine; published last month by ten
UNL students who didn't have the sense to
be discouraged by other peoples failures.
Relying on their own standards of taste
and . their ability to work; together, they I
produced tn unpretentious collection of
poems, photographs and stories worth far
more thin the token price of a quarter. ,
i The potential strength of a campus liter-'
ary magazine lies in the variety of
experience and education of the campus.
UNL will do well to read The Magazine to
see that our worst fears about our Intellect
usl and inunatire Inferiority are unjustifi
ed. It decs cot simper sentimentally Lka
school mszines;it does cot pecs Lka
pofcsonaljoumali. -
With few exceptions, The Magazine
features are fresh and personable. There Is
even room for opposition. Gary Lacey's
fantasia about a woman on the beach ends
in immolation.
Ifmy
eyes
and hands
had the
courage of
my thoughts
.; you would be
- .ablaze.
We might guess that Linda Rautman has
heard lines like this before. She records her
weariness in 'To Hell With Peter and the
Boys."
The persistence of Peter
exhausts me.
Halfassed he bares his heart .. .
The editorial committee of The Mega
sine had the wisdom to prevent any indivi
dual from dominating the Issue. But love
poems (ah) dominate the poetry. Bob
, Thomas's "I dance Inside you tonight" has
the richest imagery.
n I hear no more --. .
the rustle of leaves
the hush after love
only the house groans
settling heavfly
as If the moon
were lerijcn its fcesnt.
Wis L,S a. A