Page 6 University Daily Kansan, October 13, 1981
Spare Time
Photographs by Mike Moore, part-time KU instructor, will be on display in the Lawrence Arts Center through Oct. 28. The above shot, reprinted from a color print, was taken by Moore on June 16.
Craftsmanship crucial to local photographer
By DIANE MAKOVSKY
Staff Reporter
Some call it art, some don't. Whether it is or is not art does not concern photographer Mike Moore. Moore is concerned with craft-manip.
"I have a real contempt for people who have no craftsmanship." Moore said earlier this week during an interview at the Artisque Arts Center, Ninth and Vermont streets.
Moore, a former newspaperman and a part-time professor of journalism at the University of Kansas, recanted a little and said that maybe the word contempt was a little harsh, but one thing was definite, craftmanship was important.
His color photographs are on display in the center's East Gallery until Oct. 28.
"I'm a little old-fashioned. Conventional. I believe in maximum sharpness, careful and selective composition, precise exposure and rich color saturation."
Good photographs are not usually the result of random happenings, Moore said.
"My pictures also say that I don't believe in shaphtops," he said. "In most cases I saw something and knew it would produce a good picture."
For instance, Moore's picture of Chicago. Moore worked as a reporter in Chicago for eight years and knew what he wanted his photograph to say.
"Chicago is a great, big, sprawling, dark,
dirty place." he said.
And for a picture to illustrate this, Moore picked out a particular place to take the picture. Of course it had to include the Elk, said, and then he waited for the right weather.
It took a few weeks, but when the
weatherman said that a squall was going through the area. Moore drove the 10 miles to the predetermined spot and waited for the clouds.
Moore began exhibiting his work last May at Art in the Park.
Since May he has won awards including Best of Show, 25th Annual Art & Craft Show, Prairie Village; Merit Award, River Bend Attic Fair, Audition; First in Photography, Kansas Fair; Second in Fair, Topela; and All Media Merit Award. A Carriage House Jubilee, Overland Park.
"It been a very frustrating thing," he said. "I've been rained on so many times."
What is also frustrating, Moore said, is that many people don't consider photography art.
He said that people would often buy a more expensive but poorly done watercolor,
He said the most common comments he heard all summer were: "Aren't they pretty... but they're just photographs," and "I've got one just like that at home."
Moore, who described himself as a middle-aged person, used to judge the Milwaukee Journal photo contest, where he was editor of the Sunday magazine section.
"Generally no' more than 50 to 100 photographs are worth a second look," he said. "That's not just my opinion. I inherited the book that who had won a Pulitzer for his picture editing.
Moore said he spent years reviewing 11,000 to 12,000 entries a year.
Moore described his work as a craft and not an art because, he said, "I'm not sure what made it."
"Any reasonable definition of art, it seems to me, must embody the idea that it can't really be defined. A definition, after all, is a description of an art form; our art is, surely cannot be straitjacked."
Play new twist to old story
By SUSAN JEZAK Staff Reporter
Greg Hill had an obsession. He wanted to produce and direct "Dracula" for more than a year, but he could not find an adaptation that he thought truly captured the mood and emotions of Bram Stoker's novel. He finally quit his search and wrote his own version.
Hill, assistant professor of speech and drama,
wrote the play last summer, trying to make it
serious through use of qualities found in the
novel. Other versions, such as the Broadway
play, are slanted to be humorous or stylish, he
said.
JOHN EISELE/Kansan Staff
"In my script and in our production, I have tried to stay true to the best in Stoker's novel," Hill said. "It is a melancholy story of horror, a tapestry woven of light and shadow."
A sense of evil and danger is revealed to the audience through the characters and setting, instead of through special effects, he said. The audience's curious like someone you would meet in a dream.
"I don't want the play to depend on tricks," he
says. "I'm relying on the actors to create the
earlie."
The play is more than scary, surprising or frightening, he said, because he tried to make the audience feel uneasy through all of the elements involved. He wrote the script with stage effects, directions and design in mind in order to make it more unified.
The stage will remain basically the same through the entire production, with a filmfly cloth hanging between the actors and the audience. This is part of HILL's attempt to make the play slower and mooder in order to build the suspense.
In the opening scenes of "Dracula," Lucy (Roberta Wilhelm, Lansing senior) shows off her bite while other members of the cast watch. "Dracula," an original production by Gregory Hill, opens Thursday evening in Murphy Theatre.
"I want the play to be unlike any other people have seen," Hill said. "I want to keep the audience guessing with a lot of suspense about the ending."
Craig Swanson, Coffevey senior, agreed that Hill's play was different from previous stage versions. Swanson plays Dr. Van Helsing in "Dracula."
He said most other versions dealt with the story as a comic thriller, whereas Hill's version was more serious and dramatic, incorporating the 'horror-thriller' tone of the novel.
Hill said "Dracula" had always been a perennial favorite of his because of the battle between them.
is really better than evil because good must do evil to conquer evil." Hill said.
"The thing is, you're never sure whether good
"Dracula" opens Thursday in the University Theatre in Murphy Hall and runs through Sunday. Show times are 8 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $4 and $2 Thursday and Sunday and $4 and $4 Saturday. All student tickets are half price with a KUID.
Artist pokes fun at rich and famous
By CYNTHIA HRENCHIR Staff Renorter
Marius de Zayas began as a caricaturist poking fun at the rich and famous in New York, but before his death in 1861 he had gained fame for explorations of explorations of motion and motion pictures.
Sarah Bernhardt by Marius de Zayas
An exhibition of his work is now on display at the Spencer Museum until Nov. 8.
"Some of the pictures on display are from his family's collection in Seville, Spain," said Douglas Hyland, the museum's curator for paintings and sculpture.
Hyland said that the exhibition demonstrated de Zayas' three stages of development.
"More than half, though, are on loan to us from the Metropolitan Museum in New York," he said.
Hyland was mostly responsi le for bringing the collection to the University of Kansas.
"He began with a representation concept," Hyland said, and then went to a realistic style, drawing caricatures of actors and actresses while in New York, then last he went on to
cubism, very abstract. He would use mathematical equations in creating his works."
De Zayas was born in Mexico in 1902, but because of his father's outspoken arguments against the government, he and his family were later forced to flee to the United States. He had established his reputation while in Mexico, and upon his arrival in New York City, he was offered a position on the New York Evening World doing caricatures.
It was during this time de Zayas was most politic, a level he was never able to achieve under his leadership.
"They are very witty, very entertaining," said Hyland. "Especially the ones he did of Theodore Roosevelt. Generally the people are easily recognizable."
His abstract stage began soon after this, when de Zayas met Picasso in 1910 during a visit to Paris. After that, he devoted himself to the cubist style of painting, though he grew to depend on his writing more as a means of support.
When the exhibition ends in Lawrence, it will travel first to the Philadelphia Museum of Art and then to the Center for Inter-American Relations in New York.
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Attention Arab Students Dear Students,
We would like to inform you that we are going to have a meeting for members to elect a new president for the organization. This meeting is going to be held at the Council Room at the Union, 4th floor on Friday, October 16 at 6:30 p.m. We hope you will attend.
Our best wishes for the semester.
Sincerely Yours,
Tracy Abdulbaqi
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