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The nild-cssgred CM fcu;s;j eshae!
centra, two CsSca, fcr sets cf fc::rk3, 1G
to S3 roils cffUi tnd tiia tlj Coil's
tlohnaaa la m crdinsjy put per. D'i ft
largest photography manpower fcrco la No-
a. The Fixture Mas,
events photography service, employs thcut S3
photographers in Lincoln, Kearney, Grsnd
Island and Omaha, lichn&sa said. Tha com
pany also has two cr three "picture women."
Owner Bob Olsen (whose portrait appears
in the ricturo I!; a logo crr.t kissed on every
yellow shirt), bought a Ccding campus pho
tography service H years ejo. lie ar.d Ids
employees hsve been shooting end selling
party pictures ever sir.ee.
In an averse week, CIsen said, Picture
Man photographers will photograph about 12
events. Most cf Ms photographers' time is
spent shooting college parties, Olson said.
Picture men also photograph proms, gradua
tions, reunions end mors than ICO weddings
each year.
' Olson says that "personality is 75 to 0
percent cf a picture nuu'sjsh."
"You need someone who can dm into a
strange group and hsve fan with then," he
As a picture man, Mohrrsan dives into
strange groups all over the state. His jch has
taken Ma to places like Kearney, Tecumseh
At one wild party it a Holideiae in York he
was almost thrown into a pool camera and
all. At the same party Ms camera was tshen,
but it was returned about a half hour later.
Other picture men have been less lucky with
their equipment
One picture man ran over his camera case,
crashing an expensive company camera and
flash. Another had a Ml beer poured into the
open back cf Ids camera as he was reloading
his film.
Working as a picture man has given Moh
rraan, a former high school yearbook photo
grapher, a chance to get paid for something
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he likes to do. Besides Ids bctter-thsn.
minimum we siliy, there are fringe benef
its to beins a plotnre ssaa, J&tasa siid.
He's alloxod to dance and even drink on the
Job.
"As lonj you don't cvt?ir.di-.!3 so thit it
tSeets your job it's OX," ifohrmsa said.
He's even ccepted scrr.e dcte cTcrs he his
received as a picture na Kcr.a cf them
turned out 01, he said.
Dut being a picture man irn't all dates and
beer.
In a single evening, a picture man might
work four to six hours with no break and no
dinner hour, Olson said. Hearing "Picture
Man!" yelled over and over gets old pier two
or three hours, Mohrman said.
"Sometimes they start grs.t.tlngyour jacket.
You turn and shoot in a circle you don't
even stop shootl,.3,n he said. '
He also occasionally h&s to deal with two or
three pkturs hi peccle who v
photographed with literally everyone else at
the party. Other times, he has to almost beg
to get people to pesa far h'm.
"You can tell when they'ra cn a first data'
At most parties hi sheets four or five rolls
effiln In m hinr, (HI to 129 pictures). He
has ahot as many as S3 rolls in a ainl even
ing, (1,183 firaraes). During the riht he con
stantly reloads his camera and. replasea bat
teries. He also must try to make sure that all
, cf the camera asstaents are always correct.
He cams a psy perccatags based cn the
number of the reseilable pictures he takes.
Host cf the pictures Llohrman slioc4s are
the traditions! hug shots. His least favorite
pictures are tsbSs and couple poses at formd
dinners.
Mohrman prefers less traditional shots.
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"Ve black cut with a naglc marker any
thing cheese that isiht embarrass the per
son (before returnteg the procij), but we get
a laugh cut cf it," he said.
f-.vcrl3 parties are costuir.e
parties where people ate really having fcn, he ;
sSd. Ee likes island r cities o.d other inter
ti.tirg party sites where there are preps ha
Obcn also prefers to sheet parties with
interesting themes. Recently, Olson add, col-
laxS'Sf psrtya without themes.
"OrsatMty has fallen cf?," he ssld. A let of
Some of his fsvc
:s hsve been a
In rishraan's ?M yesrs as picture man, he.
hrs seen a let cf druiiks.
Tve even got pictures of them bsfeg their
coskifj over the aide cf a rail at river boat."
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Room': questions tradii
" The demanding problem of one per
' . son portraying multiple roles vrcs
... , , . , handled w;th apparent e;;se throyh-
Not a room, tut the people withix out th3 opening-night performance.
That's what "The Dining Room, ciav Basia ciothing was cleverly adorned
rentiy playing at the Temple Theatre, is dth a few accessorie8 to indicate the
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role being played.
Although the resourceful use of sup
plementary clothing helped the overall
effect cf "Dining Eocm," ample acting
Written by Ait Gurney and directed skill was the backbone of the produc
er Paul Bames. the la? is set within tier
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the genteel luxury cf a classical femily
dining room. Six actors stage the per
formance, which has roles ranging feo
a senile grandmother to a naughty lit
tle bey who peeks at the maid while she
bathes.
student who just discovered Ms mother
is having an afMr as comfineingly as
he portrays Jim, a mature mm in his
late 60s,
Overall, the actors seemed to have
an easier time portraying younger
characters than elder, A. perfect illus
tration cf this was Todd Pickering's
version of 'a grandfather in Act I.
Although the part obviously called far
an elderly nasi cf about SO, Pickering
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al values
Especially worthy of praise is Scott
Diestabier, who, through the course cf
the perforrasnce, handled each role
with tremendous skill. Dlentsbler. for
. can ciily be corbel t.y t!.e p.rc:.:c3
cf actors from tro sprxste visttc3
on stage at once. IIoT;evcr, sfler becom
ing accustomed to the two scenes
simultaneously taking place the play is
enhanced. .
Use of theaterin-the-round works
eSectlvely in "Dining Eoom." Becassa
the audience totally surrounds tha act
ing area and forms a type of "wall"
around the set, the plav seems to be
used gestures and spoke in a much scfpsnded in a type of void. This is
eiampie, conveyed the naive sensitrv
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mere rapid fashion than would befit a
nian cfsuch snelderly t.ga,
Yb ereas th e actual plsy relies hes?
ily upon the cvarlapping cf scenes fsr
cSect, this foster also poses a dissd-
esptclsUy effective bscsse the udi
cace cm see the action cf the play not
crdy Is restricted to the theater, but to
their cwa Mm cs well
, lasnants cf the" criinsJ prcsce-ri-s
firch teens drdgn, fsr which the
play was origlnslly written, were still in
evidence. It seems the west audience
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w&s osing usea as a oacBOiop since
they sit the actors' and actresses',
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oac&s more wan ineir laces.
I especially erjeyed the intimacy cf
the round thester space. Bacause of the
close proximity of the actors, gestures
and facial expressions could be expo-.
rlcjxed mere fully.
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